Crooks and politicians

aadelakun@punchng.com On January 23, a truck belonging to Dangote Group rammed into a shopping complex in Akungba Akoko, around Adekunle Ajasin University. Media reports state that the truck’s brakes failed as it descended a hilly approach and used the complex as a stopgap. In one fell swoop, eight persons were dead. The scale of the […] Read Full Story

The common way to emphatically reject a proposal is to say, “When hell freezes over.” Well, forget hell. Let’s talk about Texas. No, the American state is not hell by any means. Why else would an estimated 54,000 Nigerians settle there in their quest for greener pastures? It’s just that Texas is known for its […] Read Full Story

niranadedokun@gmail.com But for just one sentence, which tends towards an uneven appreciation of citizens’ discontent with the Nigerian establishment, I am with Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi in his most recent interventions on Nigeria. In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation, Pidgin English, during the weekend, the Kaduna-based cleric opined that most Nigerians want […] Read Full Story