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Kuli kuli is a delicious peanut-based snack. It is probably the most celebrated accompaniment for “smoking” garri, or cassava flakes if you will. It is also known for being so temptingly delicious that it could teach youngsters thievery, as one of those songs we sang in Yoruba as kids went.   Kulik kuli was also the Friday back page column of Mr Femi Adesina in The Sun. He has since then become a lead spokesperson for the second coming of a dictatorship under General Muhammadu Buhari. With lucid style, the column contributed to national discourse. There was an echo of truth in its lines. The past half a decade has however helped show Adesina for what he is, as he now writes and speaks for “the inside”. Does this have to do with supernatural powers, abi na demons in Aso Rock that like (to waste) our local snacks? Just a few years back Reuben Abati informed the world of these spirits and their taste for boli , the plantain snack which is supposed to help turgidity of that thin...

( Being the text of a media conference addressed by Comrade Baba Aye, National Convener of the United Action for Democracy on Saturday, September 19, 2015, to commemorate the 10th year annivesary of the martyrdom of Chima Ubani & Tunji Oyeleru, at the National Secretariat of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Ikeja Lagos) Chima Ubani at one of the anti-deregulation rallies, shortly before his death Sisters and brothers from the Fourth Estate of the Realm, comrades and compatriots, colleagues and friends, I welcome you all to this media conference on behalf of the National Coordinating Committee of the United Action for Democracy. We are here as part of the activities to commemorate a decade of the martyrdom of Chima Ubani and Tunji Oyeleru. Drawing from the inspiration of their lives and deaths, we are charged with raising the banner of working people’s struggle, for a better society, high. The two patriots died in an auto crash at Potiskum, ...