Tag: By Mobolaji Sanusi

"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over." — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Politics is...

"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." — Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the 16th US President, in...

Last weekend was electorally exciting in the country. At a time when electoral cynicism engulfs Nigeria's democratic space, it is heartwarming to witness echoes...

“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be." — Sydney J....

"We live in a society of imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia." — Angela Yvonne Davis (1944 – present) Sometime last week, news...

Ever since our paths crossed at the reception of the Salawu Abiola Memorial Library within the precincts of Ogun State Polytechnic, Abeokuta, in 1987,...

"Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow." — W.H. Auden (1907-1973), The...

Precisely on September 7, 2023, in faraway India, President Bola Tinubu, GCFR, made a profound statement with a penetrating effect on our collective psyche...

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength." — Betty Friedan (1921-2006) Olusegun Osoba, the Akinrogun of Egbaland and Aremo...

"The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." — Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933-, 30th US President from 1923-1929). The thrust of today's piece, despite...