Two highly connected characters have their hands soiled in circumstances climaxing in the tragic death of 27-year-old Afrobeat Rapper and Musician, Mohbad, on September 12. Sam Larry is one. This music promoter and Lagos socialite flaunted his heavy connection with the high and mighty, climaxing in him posting a selfie with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently in Dubai. Far from that being a chance meeting, Sam Larry’s video intended to show he belongs in the good books and inner sanctum of Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief. Another high-profile suspect, Naira Marley, joined Sam Larry in a photo op with Lagos State’s…
Author: Felix Oboagwina
After a house detention spanning two years, Nigeria’s Sunday Igboho earlier this month finally secured his freedom from the Benin Republic. He did not return to Nigeria. He jetted out to Germany. Igboho, 56, a Yoruba nation separatist whose real name is Chief Sunday Adeyemo, ran afoul of that Francophone nation’s laws for attempting to secure its passport through the backdoor. They arrested him. Worldwide pleas by Yoruba people were made for his release, with even the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, paying Igboho a visit in custody in May 2022. Perhaps reluctant to court the ire of President Muhammadu…
The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has expressed deep concern regarding the proposed escalation of electricity tariffs by Distribution Companies (DISCOs). They condemn this action as being detrimental to the welfare of the people, oppressive, unwarranted, and a deliberate attempt to undermine the new administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Urging Tinubu to kill the DISCO’s electricity price increase, OPC President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Comrade Bunmi Fasehun, noted that the move had similarly been rejected by workers under the umbrella of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and industrialists under the Manufacturers Association of…
April last year, I wrote an article, titled, “Didn’t Tinubu Just Goof On MC Oluomo?” The piece did a post-mortem on the crisis rocking the Lagos State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). Long story short, Musiliu Akinsanya, alias “MC Oluomo,” was issued a query by the union’s national leadership, he refused to answer it and he was handed a suspension. Out of the blue, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu declared NURTW banned. In its place, they created the Lagos Parks and Garages Management Committee and appointed MC Oluomo to head it as Chairman. Those who know, know…