My first contact with her brand of car was in 1979, through my first son’s nursery schoolmistress who had just purchased France’s latest queen of the road, the Peugeot 505…
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Buhari, Magoro and the Reunion of the Class of 84/85 – Eric Teniola
by Eric Teniola May 14, 2020A reunion is expected to rekindle the past, access the present and proffer solutions to the future. For me, a reunion should not only be about the past. I hope…
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With the demise of Chief Richard Osuolale Abimbola Akinjide (1931-2020) all Ministers, except Alhaji Ganiyu Folorunsho Abdul Razak (93) and Chief Jacob Cheogbu Obande (98) who served in the first…
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BEFORE CORONAVIRUS(COVID-19) WAS Bonvine Spongiform Encephelopathy(BSE)MAD COW DISEASE
by Lekan Alabi May 5, 2020Long before the ravaging Coronavirus(COVID-19)pandemic,threw Nigeria and other parts of the world,into panic and sorrow,as a result of painful and sudden deaths, lockdowns and social/economic/political/religious somersaults,there had been a similar…
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The meeting of the National Council of State is long overdue. The Council met last on January 22nd last year and discussed many issues especially the minimum wage. Although the…
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OWOKONIRAN Where are the children of yesterday’s big men and big women? Who were the fathers and mothers of yesterday’s big men and big women? Let no one therefore boast…
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Rituals,blood and death: The spiritual side of Aso Villa People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they…
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22 years ago,on Sunday,22nd March,1998, gentleman officer,the late Brigadier-General Sasaenia Adedeji Oresanya,a former Military Governor of old Oyo State(present-day Oyo and Osun States of Nigeria),died. He was aged 52 years.May…
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26 years ago,exactly on 17th April,1994,the popular,but sadly now- defunct,Sunday Concord newspaper published the story of the suicide by Mr Enoch Alade,a senior accountant with old Ondo State Government. Why?…
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“The duty of the religious community and its leaders is to support the people and lead them aright, not to use Holy Books to promote disease, murder and suicide. But…