Major Debo Bashorun was a Media Assistant to General Ibrahim Babangida. For years, he had a runniing battle with the military authorities, particularly Brigadier Haliru Akilu. At the early stages of the Babangida’s government, he was quite visible in the government. He was so close to the former President that he even wrote a book…
In an interview he granted to TSM magazine Edition of July 14, 1991, Gen. Bali was not too forthcoming in his answers. A thorough-bred professional soldier who was quite apolitical, he was apparently an outsider to the political scheming of Babangida and his political soldiers. The interview went inter alia: TSM: You announced the execution…
Many Nigerians experience visa refusal daily. They don’t need the National Security Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, to invoke hell against any country to make the point. Unfortunately, Ribadu’s fury after the Canadian High Commission refused visas to Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Musa and other officials for the winter Invictus Games in Vancouver Whistler…
Reconciling Accounts: An Ex-excellency prepares to meet his maker Any student of history who has encountered the legendary South African figure known as Shaka Zulu knows that you either hate him or love him. In a life filled with brutality and deception, Shaka killed his half-brother to become king. In the fullness of time, he…
MY JUNE 12 STORY -Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar(rtd) (On October 24, 2000, IBB, in a Voice of Nigeria (VON) Hausa service interview, said “Only Gani Fawehinmi and Colonel Dangiwa Umar are the only true, principled fighters of June 12. Others are sycophants who fed fat on June 12”. In his lengthy treatise, published in the…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO Professor ( Senator) Banji Akintoye @90 Professor (Senator )Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, also known as Professor Banji Akintoye was born on February 18th 1935 in Ado-Ekiti,the capital of the present Ekiti State of Nigeria. He is a Nigerian-born academic, historian and writer. He attended Christ’s School Ado Ekiti, Nigeria from 1951–1955, and studied…
A battle for Anambra’s soul has been sparked by the new Anambra State Homeland Security Law 2025, which declares certain categories of practitioners as persona non grata. The most prevalent of these are evil native doctors, fake native doctors, and other fakes, such as false prophets who deceive the gullible populace, especially the younger generation….
Even after Pastor Enoch Adeboye had distanced himself from the arrest of a TikToker who disrespected him Olumide Ogunsanwo (SeaKing), the church PR unit still put out a notice overriding him. The church claimed that Pastor Adeboye weighed in before the video was reviewed. After watching it, they think, “It has become necessary to allow…
International journalist, Kayode Soyinka has challenged a recent interview by former Deputy Director of the State Security Service (SSS), Brigadier-General Kunle Togun (rtd.) in which he alleged that the publisher of the pan-African magazine, Africa Today, has questions to answer in connection with the death of the then Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch magazine, Dele Giwa. Soyinka,…
It is very easy to find a woman to marry; what is not easy to find is money to cook soup. That is not a proverb acceptable in some places, definitely not in Kano. Imagine this: a thousand brides stand. They wait (im)patiently for their grooms to arrive. The men arrive salivating in hot boxers;…
