If Lagos can
By Sam Omatseye This essayist often has to hark back to past melodies on this page, and I do that today. It is because, sometimes, one man’s symphony is another man’s dirge. While I noted last week...
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Even keel
By Sam Omatseye Lagos has been on my mind these few weeks. It is even more so as it stands as an oasis in a federal chaos. Lagos the necklace of islands, the city as state and state as city, the...
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Double Stumble
By Sam Omatseye Despite the Twitter rupture, Lai Mohammed is lucky it is not Instagram. Even his grandchildren would be erupting now in their homestead against their paterfamilias. Instagram ban would...
View ArticleMKO’s labour
By Sam Omatseye My first meeting with M.K.O. Abiola came early in my career as a reporter with the Newswatch magazine. I had come early to the office, and assistant editor Dare Babarinsa asked me to...
View ArticleOut of the cocoon
By Sam Omatseye Some Nigerians are not happy today because Buhari took away their status as a god of creation. But they were first a god of death, an Egyptian Anubis. In one face time, they lost their...
View ArticleMind your English
By Sam Omatseye Language can be tricky, and it is more so when it challenges a person, a people, or a nation. We saw that when President Muhammadu Buhari called one of us a dot in the circle. When this...
View ArticleSweat wisely
By Sam Omatseye For the Nnamdi Kanu theatre, two eyes saw it in Nigeria. For one, it was a gangster act. For another, it was a sleek score for Nigerian Intelligence. For the Igboho saga, no one saw...
View ArticleThe Sacrifice
By Sam Omatseye Former finance minister Kemi Adeosun cannot be making a carnival over vindication alone this moment. She must be thinking many other things. She must wonder if she could have escaped...
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The Igboho cat
By Sam Omatseye It may not surprise historians that when the story of Sunday Igboho is told it may not be about humans. Not about a rustic upstart rewriting his hubris to muster a tribal pride. Not...
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Cage them
By sam omatseye With Igboho undergoing trial in Benin Republic and Kanu awaiting his in Abuja, we are set for a tragi-comic drama. Tears will glisten with laughter, and we will not be sure as a...
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