Author: Dele Sobowale

“Telling the truth and accepting the truth has been our major problem in Nigeria. Some people will never tell you the truth when you are in power, and honestly, many of us in power...

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their character, and my enemies for their good intellect. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. Oscar Wilde, VANGUARD...

“For if a miracle does not take place for our people, its path will be one of ultimate doom and destruction.” Adolf Hitler, 1897-1945.  Under ordinary circumstances, this would have been a time to...

“Coronavirus: FG Considers Reviewing 2020 Budget. “DAILY INDEPENDENT, March 5, 2020, p 1. “55 Nigerian oil cargo unsold as demand tumbles.” PUNCH, March 6, 2020, p 23. Shakespeare, 1564-1616, must have had a situation...

“The North has become a region of endless funerals and perpetual bereavement. Bandits in the North have become a state. They impose fines and taxes, send notices, control spaces, determine life and death and...

“A sucker [fool] is born every minute.” P.T Barnum, US Circus Master.  The great entertainer who made this remark about his fellow Americans never heard of a country called Nigeria – because it did...

“Manufacturing declines as 2.27% GDP growth surpasses IMF projection.” PUNCH, Tuesday, February 25, 2020, p 35.  For a country so long starved of any good news, even a minor triumph must be celebrated by...

“Why the Presidency should return to the South in 2023 by El-Rufai” VANGUARD, Monday, February, 24, 2020, front page. Wonders never cease! Just as I was getting prepared for a stiff opposition to the...

“We have been saying this for 20 to 30 years. If the North does not change, the North will destroy itself. The country is moving on. The quota system that everybody talks about must...