by Tola Adenle [The essay on environmental pollution of Ibadan with election and religious posters is postponed - again.  It will come, as must the actual cleaning up of the city - some day.] Apart from being a dapper dresser like the late John Gotti, nobody would compare the smooth Swiss, Sepp Blatter who has […]

    Post Script as Breaking News   It seems there’s no let-up or end in sight to Nigeria’s pillage in the hands of PDP helmsmen who have turned the country into a “crime syndicate masquerading as a nation”  Yesterday, Sunday, May 29 as a new President was being sworn in, Nigerians woke to the […]

LETTERS TO MY NIECE Yewande, dear, Great to learn you’ve already accessed the “incredible pictures” contained in the Catalog.Since you would not let me off the hook but still want two mails that I promised, I’m willing – though not sure I’m that able – to “shine some light” on the Catalog’s contents. The two […]

by Tola Adenle [The date for the Obama essay was mistakenly mixed up with the date for the Ulli Beier story to be used this Friday which was also a 3-part series.  The Beier story was February  '09 while the Obama essay was September '04.  Error regretted.] The next U.S. general election is more than […]

  “I’ll be back…………………………..to get the rest of my things.”  YAHOO! blogger ‘Heydroogie’. Of the over 20,000 bloggers who had written on the Schwarznegger saga when I checked several days ago, I must have glanced at just about a hundred but among those few, one stood out for its hilarity:  Yahoo! Blogger “Heydroogie” who put […]

By Tola Adenle This is just a note to say ‘hi’ as well as give an idea of the when to expect new postings this coming week.  Since this is a personal blog no matter the volume of contents I’ve been able to post since its inception 55 days ago, it will not have freshly-written […]

[The following essay from 2003 was my first public expression of dissatisfaction with the presidency of retired General Obasanjo, a dissatisfaction that would grow and lead to many other write-ups with the president as main subject or as references.  The last I read, the former president is still at it: we all know that his […]

“Do you believe in the same God I believe in?” [Dawn Dannenbring, JPMorgan Chase Shareholder] by Tola Adenle It seems I’m forever getting into religious essays not because – if “born-again Christians’ opinions count for something – I am a Christian; a “born-again” once wrote if I really believe I’m a Christian judging from my newspaper […]

This title is not completely original.  The Guardian remains a great Nigerian newspaper but back in the 80s, it was a great literary success whose editorial staff and contributing essayists were comparable to the best newspapers anywhere in the English-speaking world.  To have an essay submitted and have it actually appear in an edition was […]

by Tola Adenle The first essay for a new category since promised, Newspaper Columns from the almost 9 years of weekly essays in The Comet – now rested and the metamorphosed  The Nation, is presented, beginning today.   They will not be posted in the order in which they were presented to the public nor will, […]