Abiodun Ladepo

With Ajimobi, the jury is still out. So far and so early, it appears to be a mixed bag. We have a governor who has embarked on a deliberate effort at ridding the state of Alao-Akala’s unqualified and incompetent political appointee...

We started down this ignoble, cowardly course by negotiating with the criminals that hijacked the legitimate cause of the Niger-Delta people by blowing up oil infrastructure, blackmailing, kidnapping, raping, maiming, and killing...

Sam Omatseye’s recent commentary on the Awolowo family - “Awo Family Without An Awo” - has generated quite a furor. Scores of Yoruba people have written letters to the Tribune editors and to online media outlets, castigating Omatseye for the supposed disrespect of the Awolowo family...

No sooner had Alao-Akala lost his re-election bid than notable indigenes of the State started calling for his probe. The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, spearheaded that call in a way that some, including this writer, first thought was too far beneath his exalted throne...

The young man asked me to help convince his father, Mackson, to submit himself to a blood test to verify his paternity...

I can confidently report that only Reuben Abati of The Guardian has the cajones to ask government officials for explanations. It is as if he is the only one not beholden to the allure and lucre of brown envelopes...

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...