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THE scholar and researcher had taken a trip to an open market. There, he met a female fishmonger. Attracted by the casual attention this...

The interminable fuel queues which began last week have become, to Nigerians, another painful encounter with the one-year old Tinubu government. Those encounters, in close to 365 days now, have, according to Festus Adedayo, become the proverbial numerous smelly teeth of the Adipele.

It was precisely on Saturday, October 10, 1998 at Frank Kokori’s Yaba, Lagos house. Tinubu and other NADECO activists had just returned to Nigeria the day before after exiling abroad. Sitting beside him, I asked Tinubu what impression he had of Nigeria upon his arrival. His response: “Retrogression, rolling backwards, on reverse gear; that is my impression. Sad. That people are still queuing at the petrol stations, spend more productive hours at the petrol stations than in economic sector.

If government’s secret police still do their work effectively, let them compile the articulations of bilious hatred for Tinubu today.

If Ibadan was human, Beere would perhaps be the heart and the vein of this city, bringing together all other vital organs of Central Ibadan.

Olubadan urges FG, govs to adopt irrigation farming as food shortage looms On By Adeola Badru The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji and traditional worshippers in Nigeria have urged the Federal Government and the southwest governors to urgently adopt irrigation farming to overcome projections of food shortage in the year 2021. Farmers association from the Oke-Ogun region of Oyo State have recently announced that there would be a scarcity of maize in 2021, because of what they called a...