Author: Remi Oyeyemi

SUNDAY IGBOHO AND THE SOUR GRAPES: A Letter To Lad

Tuesday, January 26, 2021
My dear Lady Oloyede, I am compelled to write you this letter in view of your responses to irritating nuances of some, on the efforts of Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a. Sunday Igboho to set his people free from the stranglehold of Fulani criminals who have continued to murder, maim and rape our people. ...

Gov. Seyi Makinde: The Making Of A New Traitor

Friday, January 22, 2021
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. - Thomas Jefferson I have just read the text of a speech delivered by the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Mr. Seyi Makinde, threatening the Yor ugrave;b aacute; sons and daughters in Ibarapa area of the Pacesetter State, who are trying to prote ...

Historical Revisionism: Letter To Loye Akinlade Tunde

Sunday, January 10, 2021
Dear Loye Akinlade Tunde, I am compelled to write you this letter in order to publicly challenge you to produce EVIDENCE of your pernicious claims about the Igrave;j egrave;s agrave; people. I am also piqued about your challenge of the authenticity of my Igrave;j egrave;s agrave;ness, the best th ...

Louis Xvi Of France And Yusuf Buhari

Thursday, December 28, 2017
When at 10.22am on January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed at Place de la R eacute;volution ( Revolution Square , formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) it called to question the humaneness of our humanity. Born as Louis-Auguste and referred to as ...

The Paradox Of Untutored Teachers And A Certificateless President.

Friday, November 10, 2017
I have been following the public reactions to the disclosure of mass failure by the school teachers in Kaduna State. I have watched with incredulity the usual vacuous righteous indignation of hypocrites on our public pedestal. I have been trying to ignore the whole seemingly ridiculous scenario ...

Osun State: Time To Rupture The Vultures

Monday, July 24, 2017
quot;You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. quot; - Abraham Lincoln. There is no longer any doubt about the fact that the last Seven years in Osun State under Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola have been th ...

NIGERIA: What And How To Restructure

Sunday, July 2, 2017
The issue of restructuring this unfortunate country called Nigeria is once again on the front burner. Restructuring remains one of the promises made by the APC and President Mohammadu Buhari that they have refused to fulfill. In fact, at all levels of the APC as an administration and political party ...

A Celebration Of Tyranny, Nepotism And Corruption.

Monday, May 29, 2017
Timeline: 2335 hours, May 28, 2017, City of Ogden, State of Utah, USA. Ensconced in the comfortable cranny of this hotel, Nigeria is on my mind. In about 24 hours from now, President Mohammadu Buhari would have spent exactly 730 days in office. Yes, two solid years of anomie. As ...

The Mistake Of 2015

Tuesday, May 2, 2017
It was sir Ahmad Bello, the late Sardauna of Sokoto who called the attention of Nigerians to what he called quot;The mistake of 1914. quot; Indeed, what Sir Bello called quot;The mistake of 1914, quot; actually had its roots in the fertile mind of Flora Shaw, Lord Lugard rsquo;s fiancee ...

The Nexus Between Socio-Economic Woes And Cultural Degeneration

Monday, May 1, 2017
The recent disrespect of Oonirisa, Oluaye, the Ooni of Ife, Kabiyesi Eniitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, by the Eleko of Eko, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has once again reopened the challenges the Yoruba Nation faces as it saunters around in search of a compass to get out of its present political, social and economi ...

Magu’s EFCC, Loot Discovery And Deceit

Friday, April 14, 2017
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) led by Mr. Ibrahim Magu is engaged in a game. And it is a game of deceit. It is a game of duplicity. It is a game of treachery against the people of Nigeria. It is a game that would eventually have high costs for his masters. It is a game that w ...

The Fall And “Rise” Of Saraki

Tuesday, April 11, 2017
A number of weeks ago, I had posted a very brief analysis of the on-going struggle for power within the Nigeria rsquo;s rapacious political elite on my Facebook page. In the brief but cold analysis, I had put aside my dislike for Senator Bukola Saraki and noted that from information this writer i ...

The Tragedy of Nigeria And Lord Denning’s Analogy

Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Mr. Peter Ajayi, the man who as the Managing Director employed me into the stable of the Sketch Newspapers in 1988 was the one who introduced me to the seminal brilliance of Alfred Thompson Denning. Mr. Ajayi had summoned me into his office sometime in March 1989 to call my attention to a couple of ...
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