[If truth be told, the war being fought seems more like a war being waged on the citizens of Ondo State for selfish interests. From: http://emotanafricana.com/2012/02/29/ondos-mimiko-revives-an-old-sleeping-little-giant-with-youth-vitality-technology/%5D At most political gatherings, speeches and testimonies, etcetera can often be dismissed as coming from people with different agendas and should not therefore be taken as being genuine but […]

by Tola Adenle   I prefer good news first but this is different. As I would not want devoted readers to think I’m abandoning my self-appointed role of always trying to ask the questions that most Nigerians would want asked from Nigeria’s power bloc, I’m putting the “bad” part first. The fear of losing devoted […]

[Well, the English justice system has done it for the corrupt Nigerian judicial system:  made Ibori confess to being guilty of looting  Delta  while he was governor for eight years.  Nigerian Newspapers that have been filled with news of a plea bargain have acted a script that is now too familiar to most Nigerians:  be messengers […]

[If the "Federal" Government of Nigeria cannot afford to prosecute a project of under half a million dollars and needs assistance, pray, what is all the oil money that continues to flow into government coffer spent on?  I'm sure this is a question most Nigerians would want answers to.  Regards, TOLA.] FG seeks partner on […]

  This is just a postscript that is not an afterthought but a sort of addendum to – http://emotanafricana.com/2012/02/07/professor-sam-aluko-goes-home-the-passing-of-a-true-icon/ February 7, the day Professor Aluko’s passing was announced. Like, perhaps, hundreds of thousands who admired Prof. as everybody younger seemed to address him, my feelings for him were more than ‘respect’, more like absolute admiration. […]

I am not in the habit of using this column for self-promotion unless writing about the things that make one’s life feel full is self-promotional.  Neither have readers been sent running for handkerchiefs because I meant a piece of writing as a cathartic exercise for myself.  This piece is different.  While it may, hopefully, bring […]

I know I should stop visiting this subject but I want to pay a FINAL visit! We had all been using belabored titles in writing about different first ladies, when – who else but – Soyinka coined the pithy “first ladyism” during the imperial presidency of retired General Obasanjo (rGO). Soyinka coined the phrase around […]

  This is not the first time I’m wondering aloud at the direction that Nigeria’s “first ladyism” – borrowing Professor Soyinka’s description of the Nigerian hybrid – is going. Since late Chief Stella Obasanjo, I’ve written many times on first ladies, especially in the Southwest. For example, I wondered aloud here on September 23, 2007 […]

When Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka first used “first ladyism” in reference to the excess of the position during the time of the late Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, we did not envisage the further stench the position was still to bring to political governance in the country. He, like most Nigerians was simply fed up with the […]

[Fayemi delivered one of the lectures at Professor Ladipo Adamolekun's Iju Public Affairs Forum some years ago BEFORE she became Ekiti's "First Lady". TOLA.] Nigeria’s First Lady Debate: Speaking for Myself Bisi Fayemi Three weeks ago I was at a meeting in Accra, Ghana, in preparation for the biennial African Feminist Forum, which is convened […]