Frankly Speaking
NOTE: Our readers will forgive me for going back a few paragraphs from last week – because, otherwise what follows will make no sense. Last week, some charges were formulated against banks either as...
“Lives of great men remind us that we can make our lives sublime. And departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.” HW Longfellow, 1807-1882, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS. For me this...
Note: Chief M K O Abiola, during the Presidential campaign in 1992-3, had promised to ask for reparations totalling several billion dollars from all the countries which participated in the slave trade. According to MK,...
“We should under no circumstances, let the terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because those barbaric killers don’t represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world.” President Buhari after...
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice and need.” Voltaire. French writer and philosopher. “Work is the great cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.” Thomas Carlyle, English philosopher....
“We had to remove Fowler to improve revenue generation – Presidency.” VANGUARD, December 24, 2019, p 9. Fowler for those who might not know is from Lagos State and he was replaced by an...
“I hold that man in the right who is most in league with the future.” Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906. Norwegian. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS. As one of those who frequently berated our Governments for not...
https://www.delesobowale.com/shop/ “God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please. You cannot have both.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ P 254. INTRODUCTION. The first...
https://www.delesobowale.com/shop/ “They gave us a dreadful Christmas tralalala la la They gave us a dreadful Christmas tralalala la la And a hopeless New Year… Christmas is only two days away. And, unless you are...
“They never really die who live evergreen in our hearts.” Simplicity. Sincerity. Strength, Splendour. Those four words summarise the life and times of Nigeria’s most remarkable First Lady. When Maryam Babangida (nee Okogwu), born...
