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  • Shooting, Not Boxing, Day in Nigeria

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Attack on IS and Boko Haram Terrorists in Zamfara and Sokoto on Christmas Day. Have you heard the news? What news? That Trump made good his boastful promise to attack religious extremists and terrorists in Nigeria on Christmas Day? Iro ni. Na […] More

  • annual Thanksgiving Day Thursday, November 27

    Thanksgiving Day My Foot!

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow EVEN both the hungry and the angry have cause to give thanks to God at least for surviving another season of hunger and anger.  Americans celebrated their annual Thanksgiving Day Thursday, November 27, as usual with family gatherings with a lot of eating […] More

  • THE NEWS BY JIMMY CLIFF

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Have you heard the News? News, news, news..What news? That Mrs Latifa Chambers announced to the world that her husband, James Chambers has passed away. Who is Latifa? Who is James Chambers? They are one and the same. Tokotaya?  I mean Mr and […] More

  • Nnamdi Kanu

    KANU’S MAGAZINE

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow OC! Good morning, sir. Good morning to you, too. What can I do you for (or is it do for you)?  Whichever, sir. Actually, I’m here to seek your help to uncover certain but very essential details about “the talk of the town […] More

  • Obasanjo-and-Fayose

    WITH ‘LOVE’ FROM KIGALI

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow He flew in on the wings of Aliko Dangote, the man who helped him cut short his trip to Rwanda in order to attend the 65th birthday anniversary of Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti State and “enfant terrible” of post military politics… […] More

  • Dan, the Boss, Adieu (Dan Agbese 1944-2025)

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow As a young man I used to read as many newspapers as I could lay my hands on.  The New Nigerian was one of them and what I liked most in this daily was  CANDIDO,  a kind of grapevine column. It was not […] More

  • Wole SOYINKA, Photo

    The Metamorphosis of ‘Brother Jero’ from Kongi to Presido!

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow You need to see him at the old Race Course, Ibadan, (now Adamasingba Stadium), the setting of a scene in the filming of KONGI’S HARVEST, he was a fierce looking character, Kongi, the fictional dictator of an imaginary African country.  Was I there? […] More

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    PERSON OF PARTICULAR CONCERN

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow He has his finger in every pie. He jumps from one fry pan to the other, in some cases into an inferno. His restless “afopina” has strayed into Naija campfire. Dangerous gambit, that is. His niece, Mary, once described him as the “most […] More

  • THOU SHALL NOT KILL

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Good morning, class. Today we want to take a look at the Ten Commandments as handed down to Moses on Mt. Sinai, the rationale for the “dos and don’ts” , their impact on our lives, how adequate they are and how civilisation has […] More

  • ‘Wole SO’BUHARI’: Linking Soyinka with Muhammadu

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Second time around and what a SOUR taste in the mouth again! What’s missing or who is missing in action? On Sunday, October 19, 1986, I was in our NEWSWATCH newsroom expecting Dele Giwa, editor-in-chief to brief me and offer a written note […] More

  • A Shuttle in an Animal Kingdom in the United Kingdom of UK!

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow I read Ola Rotimi’s THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME many many years ago and the words of Kurunmi, the Generalissimo, still ring in my ears. Bring them up! “Ibadan warriors are like horses, full of muscles, no sense” Akiika! That’s wicked! How […] More

  • O My Gosh! Yoruba Is Two Dangerous. Even Three Dangerous!

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow As I was Saying, I am not Agbara Ojo who… Agbara what?! Agbara who do or does what? Agbara Ojo. No, I’m not. I’m not agbara ojo who… Wait again! Are you kidney me?  How do you mean and who is arguing with […] More

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