Tag: By Dare Babarinsa

Dangote, Witches and Why We Need Yams, By Dare Babarinsa

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Dangote’s new battle is not going to end in a hurry.   In the months and years ahead, Nigerians and Africans would have a choice of buying refined petroleum products produced on our soil. In North and West Africa, only Libya and Algeria have functioning refineries. Nigeria, in the past 20 years, has expended enormous resources in trying to revive its four comatose refineries. In the last few years, Aliko Dangote and his team have finally built the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Complex; the largest industrial project in…

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OBIDIENT AND A JOURNEY INTO UNDERSTANDING, BY DARE BABARINSA

Dare Babarinsa

The Obidients chew the figures like their hero and were ready to serve him without collecting shishi… The Obidients represent the future of Nigerian politics when ideology and manifesto would matter.   The presidential election 2023 may go down in history as one that was most strategically fought among the three leading contestants. I will rely mainly on the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which is being disputed by the first runner up, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice-President, who ran on the platform of the…

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His Excellency Can Dance But Now He Has To Work, By Dare Babarinsa

ADEOLA YUSUF

In Osun State, interesting days lie ahead. The new Governor, Ademola Adeleke, is showing that he has teeth and he can bite. He has already issued many Executive Orders trying to undo some of the actions of his predecessor, the methodical Governor Adegboyega Oyetola. Three traditional rulers who recently ascended the throne have fallen under the hammer. They are the Aare of Iree, the Akirun of Ikirun and Owa of Igbajo. The Owa, Adegboyega Famodun, before he ascended the throne, was the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).…

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The great pilgrimage of Peter, By Dare Babarinsa

Dare Babarinsa

When the angelic delegates came to summon Peter Awelewa Adebiyi home, he was fully ready. Throughout his years as an active priest of the Anglican Church, he always maintained that this world is a market place and heaven is the home for all true believers. His children and other members of his family were thinking he would wait long enough to mark his 80th birthday next year, but God decreed otherwise. Adebiyi was a fearless advocate of good governance and Christian charity. He roared where angels would have feared to…

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