Suddenly, it is all quiet on the eastern front. No street heckles or flag waving or mooning over a yellow sun, no hooting or baying in public. The rabble no longer raves. Few wonder what happened to the Nnamdi Kanu … Read the rest
Okada
By Sam Omatseye
TWO anecdotes will do for a start. One, a personal encounter; the other an ex-governor’s lesson. I drove to an elderly person’s residence around Ogba in Lagos State, and parked across the street. I peered through … Read the rest
Sam Omatseye
“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction,” Winston Churchill.
Every election cycle throws up its own tale. And for a variegated nation such as ours where egos, culture and tribe intermix with the heres … Read the rest
They wrote fiction, but they failed to provide its sweet ingredient: credibility. It’s one thing to write a lie. You fail if your readers believe it is a lie. The irony is that a good lie must throw up a … Read the rest
Sam Omatseye
The reactions boiled over. As the informed columnist, I am accustomed to such vitriol, especially when they come from the isthmus of ignorance. My column last week simply inspired what was to come. When they did not know how to … Read the rest