by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
I can imagine the self-righteous anger rising in many readers at the sight of this headline. I am sure many people would ask: “What the hell does this writer think he is talking about? How dare he compare us to danfo drivers?” I get it. But that is all that it is—mere...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
Sometime in the 1970s, the Juju music maestro, then known as Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, did a track wherein a line lamented the cheapness of death in the country. The line “iku di mejiepinni,” meaning “death has become two for a penny,” spoke about the frequency...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
To balk under pressure and again avoid the planned removal of the subsidy on petrol, as the President General Muhammadu Buhari, did on Tuesday, is one reason Nigerians must understand what they need in a future president. Someone said that the difference between a...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
I should make two quick points before I proceed with this. One, I absolutely do not like the ethnic colouration that we give politics in Nigeria. I think that as a country, the best way to attain the height of our potentials is to move together as one, not allowing...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 22, 2022 | Miscellaneous
On Tuesday, the Presidency expressed triumphalist emotions over two recent events spearheaded by the country’s security forces. The first is the re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The second is the midnight invasion of the home of...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 13, 2022 | Miscellaneous
Even though she didn’t appear to be on an evangelical mission, award-winning writer, Chimamanda Adichie, added her voice to Peter Obi’s political support project on Tuesday. It was Obi’s 61st birthday and as someone who has seen Obi’s humanity in private and...
