The president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is a lucky man. Next to him in luck is Senator Dino Melaye, the PDP…
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It was a great privilege to be invited as one of the three keynote speakers on a security management symposium…
My first and only physical encounter, at least at a close range, with the Great Guru was on Tuesday, August…
What is the value of an apology offered by a country’s ruler to its citizens? More importantly, what does the…
If INEC learnt anything from the highly contentious Presidential and National Assembly elections of 25 February 2023 and the 18…
In recent weeks Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, multiple award winning writer, Chimamanda Adichie, and supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential…
Elections everywhere tend to be divisive. This is because mobilization of support hinges on a successful creation of a simplistic…
Recently the political space has been further heated by the narrative from the Tinubu camp that some people are ‘plotting’…
The violence, aggressive voter suppression and Igbophobia that characterized the 25 February 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections and the…
Did Obi’s candidacy take votes that would have gone to the PDP? The answer to this is not as straight…
Someone staked his claim to the presidency of Nigeria with the audacious slogan of Emi L’okan (it is my turn).…
One of the most defining features of the current election cycle is the rise of former Anambra State Governor, Peter…
The election of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president of Nigeria has thrown up some interesting topics, one of which is…
A child, in his cradle, was interviewed after voting in Kano State, last Saturday. He showed his interviewers the N1,…
The presidential election is four days away. The contest for the remaining fraction of the soul of Nigeria is right…
While on the streets, Aborogi presents himself as a gentle, cordial, and amiable Ara Orun (heavenly being). He holds no…
Two music icons; same genre of music. They belonged to the Old Mid-West region, later Bendel state, before they went…
There are two insects in Yoruba cosmology that are similar. But they are very distinct. One is oyin (Bee). The…
In our elementary History classes, we were told of three different Attas. One of them is Atta of Ayede Ekiti.…
Naira Marley. Where is he now? For those who don’t know him; Naira Marley is one of the best street…
There was a funeral ceremony in the neighbourhood. Guests came from Lagos and other big cities. One of the guests,…
By Suyi Ayodele Olusegun Obasanjo publicly endorsed Peter Obi for president on New Year’s Day and the Emi Lokan people…
Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else. Aristotle, Poetics (1457b) It all seemed…
By Suyi Ayodele On his death bed in 2009, when Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited him, the late human rights activist…
By Suyi Ayodele Mothers are unique beings. The Benin people say of mothers: Iye-N’gie – mothers are precious. In my…
A man in search of good fortune once approached the village diviner for directions. After casting the divination seeds, the…
My first beat, in 1999, as a reporter in the Nigerian Tribune, was the office of the wife of Oyo…
Olodumare, the Almighty, sent Obatala down to Earth to create land from the water that filled everywhere. Obatala set to…
One of the most regularly used truism in the third worlds is the nugget that “Children are leaders of tomorrow.”…
There was a Second Republic politician, a stark illiterate, who played a prominent role in helping a particular government to…
