The Humiliating Troika of Obasanjo, Shettima and Bakare (1)
By Tunde Odesola Like humans, words have birthplaces. Russia is the birthplace of the word troika. In the once-upon-a-communist-but-now-a-democratic-capitalist country, troika means ‘a group of three’. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a troika as a Russian vehicle drawn by a team of three horses abreast. As a Yoruba expression, ‘i-k-a’, the last three alphabets of ‘troika’, … Read more