bashorun Randle

Your Excellency,   Your address to the nation on June 12, 2019 has to be a cracker. We are compelled to acknowledge that June 12, 1993 was a watershed in our nation’s history. We now…

May 29TH 2019 and June 12th 2019: Forging ahead regardless of turbulence Your Excellency, The two dates mentioned above signify your appointment with the defining moments of the…

Continued from last week The founding fathers of Bank for British West Africa deserve kudos for forging ahead regardless of the mischievous scheming and cynical…

Continued from last week If the Bank should ever contemplate a change of name, the obvious choice is ENDURANCE BANK!! Truly, over the last one hundred and twenty –…

Continued from last week. It goes without saying that the British managers of the Bank had easy access to the colonial administrators from the rank of District…

For those who are anxious to avail themselves of a concise bio-data or testimonial of the Bank, both the website and the indefatigable Alex Otti (a former Executive Director) have conspired…

The combination of One plus Two and Five – making eight has significant implications amongst magicians, tarot card readers, fortune tellers, snake charmers and Pentecostal preachers of…

The children and wives of generals get a special mention – sometimes for the wrong reason. A case in point is the first son of General Yakubu Gowon. As counterpoise, the camera zooms off…

After the assassination, Dimka had made a broadcast at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) studio in the following words: ‘’Good morning fellow Nigerians, This is Lt. Col. B.…

What was hilarious was how when the coup that toppled President Shehu Shagari on 31st December 1983 was being planned, one of the ring-leaders Major-General Ibrahim Babangida was despatched…