I would have agreed that protests would happen on August 1, 2024, if the graph had been plotted by Godfather…
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Every home has at least one spoilt child. Such a child is known as an Àkébàjé among my people. The…
I danced on Sunday when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was re-elected as Chairman of ECOWAS. I rejoiced because his re-election…
“Kabiyesi, the message which I bring you today is the message of all the women who have left their stalls,…
“Good morning, sir, what do you think about the southwest governors’ forum and their recent collaboration efforts? Let’s leave Tinubu…
The New York Times in its June 11, 2024, edition described Nigeria as a nation of 200 million citizens who…
Marcus Brutus, the villain of William Shakespear’s epic drama, Julius Caesar, poetically defines the emergence of dictators thus: …But ‘tis…
Wole Soyinka, arguably Africa’s best known writer, has once again stirred the hornet’s nest by his proclamation that Peter Obi,…
Oluwafemi Ositade is a 17-year-old student of the Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State. He is a child every parent would…
Date was Monday, August 29, 1955. Oba Isaac Babalola Akinyele, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, sat on his throne. There was…
Nigeria’s most celebrated social deviant, Idris Olanrewaju Okunneye, also known as Bobrisky, has been in the news in the last…
My people have different social stratifications. One of them is a group of people they call olórí àpésín. That simply…
Soldiers voluntarily elected to die the very day they signed up for Military work. They signed up to die at…
If I were President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I would choose to answer the name of the sixth child of the…
There was a man called Ofinaboorun. That is a deep Ekiti name. Meanings are lost in interpretations. So, you may…
Nigeria, a country endowed with abundance in culture, resources, and potential, has become entangled in an almost unbreakable web of…
The Oronsaye Report stands out as a paper full of potential that is mainly unrealized in the complex fabric of…
If you have not seen the one-minute-30 seconds video of Lagosians scrambling for rice at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)…
An Ibadan man accompanied his wife and daughter to the market in search of salt to add to their tasteless…
The land of Samaria was once under intense hunger. There was hunger in the land, occasioned by a serious famine.…
It is a sacrilege to say an oba is dead in Yorubaland. But two obas were killed by suspected kidnappers…
In my place, we say one vegetable does not chase another out of the plate. South-South’s Edikang ikong soup is…
It was Amilcar Cabral, the revolutionary socialist leader of the national liberation movement in Guinea-Bissau who formulated the theory of…
Peace in South East Project (PISE-P), an initiative of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin…
It has become a predictable pattern in our politics that whenever a new government comes into office, we will, sooner…
As the year draws gradually to an end, it may be germane to review some of the key political events…
The feud between the former governor of Rivers State and current Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and…
The recent call by former Vice President and People’s Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, for…
President Tinubu’s 1,411 delegations to the Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai has raised considerable concerns in the country, overshadowing…
I first encountered political prophecy in the run-up to the 1979 presidential election. I was then in secondary school, preparing…