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He graduated from The Yaba Tech formerly called Yaba Higher College in his early 20s with impeccable academic record as one of the best students. Adelabu would later become Federal Minister of Natural Resources and Social Services under the age of 40.  Short but purposeful life, he died at 42 and left behind 12 wives and 15 children. Adelabu Here’s how The Daily Times reported his death exactly 65 years ago;  Daily Times, March 26, 1958 ADELABU IS DEAD!!! "Shagamu Car Crash Victim; Two others die in night collision" Paper Reads: Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu was last night killed in a car crash at ode-Remo Shagamu. Two other People who were travelling in the same car as Alhaii Adelabu also died, they are still unidentified. The news of Alhaji Adelabu's untimely death was revealed in Lagos by Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh who was the Minister of Finance.  Nicknamed 'The Lion of the West" Adegoke Gbadamosi Adelabu (1915-1958) aka 'Penkelemesi' ('Peculiar Mess"

Odesola  Yọkọlu, yọkọlu, ko ha tan bi? Tinubu gbe wọn sanlẹ, wọn ti yọke!” is a Yoruba song of victory depicting the merciless manner Oduduwa incarnate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, smashed the spine of the enemy against Aso Rock. Hehehehe! If you lift your eyes unto the East, and ask from where does your help come, please, discontinue reading this article because your help will never come! I don’t care whatever name you call me, I care the Almighty god of Lagos has taught the children of discord a lesson. I’m glad they won’t stop crying in eight years. They are forever stubborn and stiff-necked like a fake KDK fan – these people who eat stones without drinking water, who wolf down yestern bread from the eastern parts without drinking tea, and yet demand freshly cooked gbegiri and amala in Lagos. If they are not stubborn, they should have heeded the advice of the lipless, wetin-you-carry Oba in Lagos, who saw tomorrow, and graciously advised them to jump into the lagoon. I think drowning in th

  The 25 February presidential election has set in motion a number of actions, reactions and processes. Some of these we can only fully understand and appreciate in the years to come. The elections not only demonstrated Nigeria’s political dynamism but most importantly its people’s capacity to shift their support across political parties. It also witnessed the shocking performance of the “Obidient Movement’, a political action group, which is a complex amalgamation of youth conviction and radicalism. While the Movement definitely complicated the hitherto bifurcated political space usually dominated by two main parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), it undoubtedly creates a ‘third force’ whose performances in the last presidential election has given its followers the courage and confidence to believe that they can shake the table and spring out surprises in subsequent elections in Nigeria.  Tinubu and Obi However, while the 2023 presidential

  Kofo and Oyinkan Abayomi  He is the man Kofo Abayomi Street in Victoria Island, Lagos was named after. Lagos Lawyer, Moronfolu Abayomi was shot dead in a Lagos courthouse at the Tinubu Square, on August 25, 1923, three months and 15 days after his wedding day. Moronfolu Abayomi Abayomi's killer was a popular Lagos entrepreneur and "big boy”, Duro Delphonso, from the renowned  Delphonso family. Delphonso was having a legal battle with his Insurance Company and the case was taken to court. The Insurance Company then hired a young and vibrant lawyer, Barrister Moronfolu Abayomi. As the case proceeded, the young Barrister was able to prove clearly that Delphonso committed arson on his home and business in order to defraud the Insurance Company. On August 25, 1923, when Delphonso was being led out of the court to begin his prison sentence, the convict shot Abayomi with a revolver and turned the same gun and shot himself. Barrister Moronfolu Abayomi died from excess blood loss whi

Adedayo   Just before genocide broke out in Rwanda in 1994, a broadcaster on the Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) had said: “Someone must…make them disappear for good…to wipe them from human memory…to exterminate the Tutsi from the surface of the earth.” That statement, among others, from that Kigali-based radio, which broadcast from 8 July, 1993, to 31 July, 1994, became the tinder that set Rwanda on fire. By this time next week, the 2023 Nigerian general elections would have been concluded. However, like the shrew – the asin – which leaves in its trails pungent and breath-ceasing smell, the elections, perhaps unwittingly, have endangered social cohesion among Nigerian ethnic groups and set the country’s unity back by almost a century. RTLM broadcasters got enveloped in crude jokes and usage of offensive language that have today been said to have contributed significantly to the 1994 genocide. Alhough figures of the casualty are still being disputed, from 7 April to 9

Prof Saheed Aderinto A Nigerian-American history Professor Saheed Aderinto has won the largest reward for excellence in history in the US.  44 year-old Aderinto is a professor of History and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University and the founding President of the Lagos Studies Association. He was awarded $300,000 Dan David Prize. Born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Professor Aderinto attended the prestigious University of Ibadan popularly known as U.I. and University of Texas, Austin. Aderinto has published eight books, popular among them ‘When Sex Threatened The State which earned him the prestigious award.  Leaders accross the country have been sending congratulatory messages to Professor Aderinto, notable among them is from Mr Peter Obi a presidential candidate in the just concluded election. Mr Obi in his Twitter account states: “ Today, I celebrate and felicitate with our Nigerian born Prof Saheed Aderinto, a Professor of History and African Diaspora Studies at Florid

Lagos, Nigeria’s Financial Capital  If you were in Western Nigeria in the 1980s, you would remember a television drama with the title Fó'po mó'yò which featured Fadeyi Oloro, the hugely popular 'venomous' actor who died last week. May God rest his soul. Fó'po mó'yò is about the appointment and installation of a new king. It is about the intrusion (or injection) of the powerful, malevolent, poisonous outlaw, Fadeyi, into the mix and spanners thrown in the works. It is about a bitter, painful, violent struggle for power – and for peace, sanity and fairness. People die; reputations suffer – and then peace prevails in the land. Northern Nigeria is calm; but, because of a vicious scramble for Lagos, the South is in simmering turmoil: Igbo versus Yoruba; the young versus the old. It is classic Fó'po mó'yò. Imagine pouring a bucket of salt into a pot of palm oil; what would you get? Whatever you get is the literal translation of Fó'po mó'yò - a word tha

Bola Tinubu  The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where, in 1927, the then President Charles D.B. King scored 234,000 votes out of a total of 15,000 registered voters. The victor was also kind enough to give his opponent 9,000 votes as a mark of fairness and justice. That uncommon feat is naturally in the Guinness Book of World Records. We in Nigeria have not reached that enviable height. We will get there one day, soon. But we had a presidential election last Saturday in which the person who was declared winner got voted in by less than 10 percent of the total registered voters and even less than four percent of the nation's population. The world is not pleased with our ways, and we could read it clearly in how the global press described what we did with ourselves last week. The Economist said a “chaotically organized vote and messy count” gave Nigeria a new president. The Financial Times said in an

  Odesola  Bitter, sweet and curious creature, the honeybee. When the honeybee stings, its abdomen tears up, its mouth opens and closes, hitting the ground in a final kiss of death. That is the fate of the honeybee and its stinger – a weapon it uses for protection and the harbinger of its ultimate death. Hey, the next time you see a dead bee on the ground, you probably need to stoop, if you can’t pick it up, to see if it ‘bled’ to death in the abdomen. Science has shown that when the honeybee sinks its stinger in flesh, for example, the stinger gets hooked. In an attempt to force the stinger out, the longer part of the stinger embedded inside the bee tears up the end of the abdomen, and the bee opens its mouth ‘in shock,’ then closes it, and drops to kiss the ground in death. Arguably America’s foremost Extension Apiculturist – Eric Mussen – lecturer at the University of California at Davis, devoted most of his 78-year life to research on bees and beekeeping before passing away in June