Nobel Laureate Soyinka calls Benue State killings “ethnic cleansing”; state’s govenor says “ethnic cleansing/Jihad

Funeral procession on May 22 of two Catholic priests and 17 worshippers allegedly killed by Fulani herdsmen in April during a Sunday service.   Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to cry out for help from the international community to stem the killings by herdsmen which he, yesterday, described as ethnic […]

Calls for sale of Nigeria’s Assets remind me of “Mommy, daddy, àb’ólè l’ẹ d’ìbò fún?” – Tola Adenle

 Mommy, daddy, àb’ólè l’ẹ d’ìbò fún? [Mommy, daddy, tabi ole ni ẹ di ibo fun?]  “Oh my God, dear daddy and mommy, you’ve voted in thieves!” /“Daddy and Mommy, is it possible that you voted in thieves? UPDATE The sorry and scary situation which could have Nigeria and the masses divested of Nigeria’s performing assets if […]

Selling Nigeria’s oil, the refineries, gas … in calls by Dangote, Nigeria’s Senate president, the Central Bank Gov. & others, is looting by another name – Tola Adenle

If we do not do it now, generations and generations yet unborn would not forgive us because most of the 300 million people in Nigeria 20 years from now would, in the word of a brother-in-law who is an engineer: “be ordered off the streets by the looters of today and their children into their […]

How Nigeria’s Accountant General deceived VP Osinbajo, governors; ₦324 billion oil money unaccounted for – premiumtimesng.com Exclusive

The amounts looted/stolen/lost in Nigeria keep piling up from almost-daily revelations: missing [recovered] Abacha loot; unremitted oil revenues; billions from “Dasukigate” … Nigeria’s Accountant-General of President Jonathan’s Administration was Mr. Jonathan Ogunniyi Otunla. TOLA. EXCERPT: The total remittance for the period of 2011 to June 2015 was ₦3,494,675,032,256. But PREMIUM TIMES’ analyses of the figures […]

Gimme, gimme: (120 units) 2016 Toyota L/Cruiser, American specs; V8; VXR, 5.7, … with Intelligence – Nigeria’s “lawmakers”! – Tola Adenle

Where are Nigeria’s so-called progressive APC leaders as their “lawmakers” go on scorched-earth spending rampage? -Tola   “If I can turn down N400 million for the presidency that I do not need any new car because of the economy, I can’t see the National Assembly spending that N47 billion to buy cars, on top of […]

BOOK REVIEW: Issues and Possible Solutions for the Civil Service & Governance in Nigeria: – Ladipo Adamolekun

Book Title:          Civil Service and Governance in Nigeria: Issues and Possible Solutions Author:                Dr. Goke Adegoroye     I would like to congratulate Dr. Goke Adegoroye on the publication of his compendium in two volumes: Governance in Nigeria, Vol. 1 – The Civil Service Pathway and Vol. 2 – Leadership and Political Will. Through this […]

How IBB, Obasanjo, Abacha, Shared Nigeria’s Oil Wells – pointblanknews.com

THE THREE AMIGOS whose evil reigns set Nigeria back in more ways than one. Photo: pointblanknews.com Caption: Tola Photo:  Point Blank News Read the following which, if it does not make you weep – not cry like a baby – cannot, definitely, make you laugh or even smile. Tola. http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/how-ibb-obasanjo-abacha-shared-nigerias-oil-wells/     TANGENTIALLY Related, though […]

Buhari’s tears are not for an ambition but for Nigeria – Tola Adenle

Being the 5th of essays from the 2011 election cycle period First posted here as above title on April 14, 2011.   What a shame that the progressive camp cannot shelve whatever differences they have on the MINOR points against its going together come Saturday! I say ‘minor’ because the evil that the PDP represents […]

Muhammadu Buhari’s victory finally rids Nigeria of cancer-like PDP – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s President-Elect Retd. General Muhammadu Buhari As Nigerians continue to rejoice over the hard-earned victory of real democracy, one thing we must keep in mind is how everything came to happen for the people’s wish to be achieved: a fed-up electorate that showed the world Nigerians are not “docile” as once perceived and announced to […]

NIGERIA’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: It’s retired General Muhammadu Buhari for Nigeria’s presidency – Tola Adenle

Nigerians in most corners of the country are in wild jubilation as thrice-rejected former army ruler of the country wins in a landslide over the incumbent. Buhari’s message of the APC party that he led to this historic in more ways than one resonated beyond his Northern Nigeria place of origin, an important issue in […]