The Place Of Food In Nigerian Politics

 By Tony Afejuku

The essay you are about to read is culled from my Nigerian Tribune column In & Out of Monday, February 4, 2013. Its import is still as relevant now as it was then, although our current experience is readily and particularly worse than any calamitous calamity can be. Indeed, what we noticed then is nothing compared with what we have and observe today.

Our new Senate President, for instance, confirmed this last week with his gluttonous display of his extravagant gluttony on the occasion of his long-stomach birthday celebrations. The nicely nice brevity of the essay says so much in a few words about the longish-ness and long-ness of the monstrously monstrous politicians of protruding throats and bellies of bellies of bad belle bellies crushing the land and landscape from everywhere to everywhere.

Lateef Jakande: The Man, His Journalism, His Politics

 By Felix Adenaike 

Speaking about Hadj Jakande is like trying to describe an elephant. You know an elephant when you see one, but attempting to describe it is a herculean, if fruitless, exercise! In other words, Hadj Jakande described himself. And I dare say that there is hardly anyone in this audience who would not recognize an elephant if or when he sees one! 

*Jakande

Born July 23, 1929, at Epetedo, Lagos Island, Lagos, Abdullateef Olukayode’s parents had migrated from Omu-Aran, in present Kwara State to Lagos. Young Lateef began his elementary education at the Enu Owa Public School, Lagos Island, from where he proceeded to the Banham Memorial Methodist School, Port Harcourt (1934-43).

Bola Ige, The Predictor

By Lekan Alabi

Last Sunday, September 30, this year, marked exactly the 35th year that the first civilian governor of the old Oyo State, (present Oyo and Osun States) the late Chief ’Bola Ige, Senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN) left office in a rather foggy circumstance.

*Bola Ige 

Foggy in the sense that happenings preceding the gazetted end of his government were fraught with threats, betrayals, back stabbings etc. I intend, by this article, to recall history, but more importantly, to pull the ears of present-day enfant terrible in Nigeria’s political space, that their disturbing acts of incivility, winner – takes – all, anti-party deals, etc., do not advance democracy and good governance.