The road much travelled
Shareby Banji Adisa
MONDAY’S turn of events is not unexpected. We’re back on a familiar road that we, as a people, have travelled often. One wonders whether we have collectively lost our sense of values, the form that wordsmith Prof. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate, would see as moral recession. Incidentally, we never get weary of [...]
November 18, 2009
Tags: corruption, FIFA U-17, Nigeria, soyinka Posted in: Banji Adisa 
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T. M. Aluko: 50 Years After One Man One Wife
Shareby Reuben Abati
IT is 50 years since Nigerian writer, T (imothy) M (ofolorunso) Aluko published his novel, One Man, One Wife; the celebration that has been organised around the event reminds us again of the growth of the novel form in post-colonial Africa and the place of the novel in the definition of the African [...]
November 15, 2009
Tags: Aluko, FIFA U-17, Literature, Nigeria, One man One wife, worldcup Posted in: Reuben Abati Comments
The NPA Six and other offenders
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by Reuben Abati
“MI’LORD has caught a big one. In fact not one, five. It is a wonderful day for Nigeria”.
“You always like to jubilate when someone falls on bad times. What’s the matter with you?”
“Why shouldn’t we jubilate? No, tell me, why shouldn’t we roll on the floor with laughter from rib to rib? When [...]
October 30, 2009
Tags: bode, cbn, criminal, FIFA U-17, fraud, kirikiri, Nigeria, npa, olabode george, PDP, soludo Posted in: Reuben Abati Comments
What’s Wrong With Jack Warner?
Shareby Reuben Abati
JACK Warner, the FIFA Vice-President who against all protestations even by the local Nigerian media and the evidence of his own eyes during pre-tournament inspection visits to the country still recommended that Nigeria should be allowed to host the FIFA U-17 soccer tournament is said to be complaining that Nigeria does not appear [...]
October 25, 2009
Tags: fifa, FIFA U-17, jack warner, Nigeria Posted in: Reuben Abati Comments
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