Politics is not a game of emotion or relation. It is purely a game of selected interests. People come together to form a party or group because of interest or gain. Truly, there is no permanent friend or enemy in politics. Sometimes interest can be temporal too. When this happens, it sets even the ‘best of friends’ in politics against each other. Things have really gone sour between Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and his predecessor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Despite visible actions and verbal exchange of followers including damning allegations which are gradually eating up the spinal cord of the All Progressives…
Author: Lawal Sodiq
Recently, some elders of Ijesaland visited Governor Gboyega Oyetola at the state secretariat. These elders travelled to Osogbo, the capital of the state to beg the governor and requested for the upgrading of the college of education in Ilesa to university. These elders argued that NCE certificate is old, diminishing and therefore, they see no reason why the college should exist. The governor instantly set up a committee and asked members of this committee to look into the possibility of their demand. They ordered their boys to send these pictures across indigenous groups on social media with different captions…
Over two months; appeal, invocation, adjuration and prostration could not pacify the angry lions of the premier university as people call for the reversal of four-semester suspension of the president of the students’ union government. What was his offence? So asked by an ardent reader and adjunct professor at the university of Belize who left Nigeria in 1985 for greener pasture during our online conversation. The students he represent were denied identity cards for two sessions despite payment of fees and as the president of the union, the congress demanded for a peaceful protest to convey their message to the…
Permit me to firstly congratulate million of eligible voters and Nigerians who took part in the electoral process of 12th June, 1993 that was eventually annulled by then Military President of the nation, General Ibrahim Babangida IBB over the open declaration of this day, 12th June as the national democracy day. President Muhammad Buhari, a core northerner and retired General of the Nigerian Army against the whims and caprices of the dark forces in Nigeria declares 12th June, 1993 as the nation’s democracy day inspite 8years of neglect and disregard of Retired General Olusegun Obasanjo civil rule who shares same…