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1 week ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“Price of crude oil slumps to $65 per barrel…” Reuters News“Oil down by $10, new headache for Nigeria’s economy.”Business Day, April 6, 2025. I have no qualms calling you Baba; because Yoruba and most of African tradition dictate it. Ten years, not even a hundred years, stay in the USA has not changed that. In the late 1970s, I was the Sales Director of a multi-national company, on official duty to Agbor, Delta State.
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1 week ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“If you shut up truth and bury it underground, it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it burst through, it will blow up everything in its way.” – Emile Zola, 1840-1902. I never thought President Tinubu would ever sack Mele Kyari.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“It is unthinkable that wisdom should ever be popular.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832. Access Bank Plc is perhaps the most innovative Nigerian bank in the last two years as the changes in the nation’s economic landscape have multiplied the uncertainties banks and other financial institutions face in the country today. It has diversified its business by establishing strong footholds in other countries based on careful appraisal of the economic prospects of those nations.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.” — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Olorogun Ovedje Ogboru did one of my late friends a great favour, about eight years ago; which will never be forgotten, even if I live (God forbid) as long as Methuselah. My friend was a Yoruba from Ogun State; Ogboru is Urhobo from Delta State.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
The most obstinate illusions are ultimately broken by facts.”Trevor-Roper, 1914-2003.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.” – Robert Greene, author of 48 LAWS OF POWER. I pray that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, aka, BAT, will live much longer. Irrespective of whether he secures a second term or not in 2027, there was one meeting and a decision arising from that encounter that he will regret for the rest of his life.
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1 month ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“Eggs in one basket…. Since 1973, Nigeria has been putting almost all its eggs in one basket – the basket labelled Crude Oil. Since the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, introduced by President (General) Babangida, rtd, governments had been warned regarding the dangers involved in being a mono-product economy. Every government made the right noises about diversification; and every government has failed woefully.
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1 month ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“Power and money of course do drive people crazy. So, why shouldn’t people gain power and wealth through being crazy?” – Saul Bellow, 1915-2005. America is in the grips of two absolutely crazy men who have acquired power and wealth by being screw balls. The entire world, America included, will pay a heavy price for the re-election of Donald Duck, sorry, Trump as the current President. Millions will die prematurely globally in the four years the American assassins are in power.
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1 month ago | 
gwg.ng | Dele Sobowale |Benjamin Abioye
“Eggs in one basket…. Since 1973, Nigeria has been putting almost all its eggs in one basket – the basket labelled CRUDE OIL. Since the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, introduced by President (General) Babangida, rtd, governments had been warned regarding the dangers involved in being a mono-product economy. Every government made the right noises about diversification; and every government has failed woefully.
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1 month ago | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow. The US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR – at the heart of which was Russia, by nurturing a CIA agent, Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931-2022, until he rose to become the President of the other super power.
