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“Convention pass convention” – to the picturesque street of pidgin we reach to kick-start today’s piece: infusing all of the braying — the dark bawls and the wild howls —

The United States and Iran – with Israel, the US side-kick – are yoked in mutual catastrophe.  But you don’t even know which is the nemesis of which! One thing

It would have been so funny, if not so tragic: “ADC replaces PDP as dominant opposition party” — The Nation’s headline of a story (March 13) — complete with its

Between the Iran mullahs and their DC nemesis, the rich ironies are totally lost – and they swirl around a hated theocracy, gutted by another wannabe theocracy! First: the mullahs. 

The February 21 opposition rout, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council polls, was clear.  But so was the losers’ huffing that so echoed the false cacophony over the

 For election-time hustlers, Christmas came early – and it’s real-time!  That explains all the hoopla and all the thunder over the real-time election results, popping off some magical machine in

Karl Marx spoke of history repeating itself first as tragedy, then as farce.  The Yoruba dismiss gangling hubris as a butterfly that fancies itself as a bird. Both apply to

How do you explain that the alleged coup plotters are mostly from the North?  And they would have cleared out a South-headed government, at its very inauguration, in an orgy