Tag: Sobowale
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TINA: Food and water beyond propaganda – Dele Sobowale
ele Sobowale “We’ve lost 50% of production to insecurity, farmers lament.” News Report. July 22, 2021. There is no alternative, TINA, was the regular acronym of those promoting the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, during the Babangida regime. It was the technocrats, as the promoters were then called, way of telling Nigerians that given the heavy…
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Buhari needs a legacy, strategic exit plan and advice – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale “There is nothing more disturbing than for a leader to look back and see that nobody is following.” US President Lyndon B Johnson, 1908-1973. There is a remarkable similarity between the lives of Johnson and President Buhari. LBJ was re-elected by a land-slide victory in 1964. By 1966, he was under severe…
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Pray for Buhari to last until 2023 – Dele Sobowale
Dele Sobowale PRAY FOR BUHARI TO LAST UNTIL 2023. “The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” President (General) Charles De Gaulle, 1890-1970. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ p 102. The late French leader shares some things in common with our President Buhari. They were both soldiers before becoming Heads of State. The two led…