YEWA ASPIRATION: OVERRELIANCE ON GODFATHERS AND MY FEARS

“Perhaps, the first error was our overreliance on two godfathers who were working at cross purposes, we were looking up to them for our salvation and keeping faith in their projections unknown to us that the hitherto strong and virile family ties that produced the victory at the two previous elections had since been broken beyond any amicable repairs.”

                                                                     By Dapo Oke, FCAI

(In his article titled “MARGINALISATION OF OGUNWEST: REAL OR IMAGINED?”)

No doubt, ‘godfatherism’ has come to stay not only in Nigerian politics but all over the world. Let’s come down home – Yewaland. We failed in 2011, not because we were not prepared but because we paid little attention to small things that matter one of which is unguided godfatherism - as identified by Chief Dapo Oke.

RELIGION IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA

This is my first write-up of the year, and obviously it is a controversial one. I hardly write on religious matters especially in a country like ours where almost everyone has religious dogma; with some killing in the name of religion. Alas! We are dying! Just because we do not want to be seen as anti-religious individuals, we have been playing the silence game. But religion has gone wild and haywire! But as usual, many will not see this picture. Why? They are religious! Religion has taken over, as everything that happens is given a religious view.