The Humiliating Troika of Obasanjo, Shettima and Bakare (1)

Obasanjo blasts lawmakers

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