By Olusegun Adeniyi It has not come to that or perhaps it has; at least in the family of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN). But...
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day! That popular street lingo, abridged from a poem by the 18thcentury British novelist and playwright,...
“There are not ten people in the world whose deaths would spoil my dinner, but there are one or two whose deaths would break my heart”—Thomas...
Last Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Osun State was fought almost like a war and at the end only the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) came out...
Ever since I arrived Washington DC last Thursday, I have lost my identity as a Nigerian to a country that does not exist: Africa! While it...
Heralded in by drummers, it was clear to all those who were already seated, important dignitaries in their own rights, that the new entrant was a...
It was one of those brilliant memos in 2001 from then Director-General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, to which President Olusegun...
The brief meeting between father and son over, President John Kennedy asked: “Dad, can you lend me some money?” Seeing the look of disapproval from his...
It is appropriate that I begin this piece with a confession so that my non-Yoruba readers would understand why I always intersperse my writings with words...
Apparently taken aback by what it considered a crooked deal by the Federal Government, Transparency International (TI) has described the withdrawal of charges against Mr. Mohammed...
Although I have told the story before, I do not think of anything better which speaks to a time like this. In March 1993, the then...
In what turned out to be perhaps his last public outing, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua spent practically the whole of July 18, 2009 at...