Nigeria’s fundamental problems can be solved by good, pragmatic leadership. While this sounds cliché and quite repetitive, it in no way diminishes the absolute truth it...
Tunde Odesola KABIYESI Onirisa, I call your name in awe and utter fear; it’s the impudent subject that the king kills. I stand at a respectable...
Suyi Ayodele Among the Yoruba people, women are grouped into seven different categories. Two of the categories are regarded as wife materials, two are barely good...
Tunde Odesola Creating a soundscape similar to locomotive wheels in motion, the rapid footfalls of marching prisoners travel beyond the walls of National Prisons, Gashua: “Lef,...
By Suyi Ayodele In those days When civilization kicked us in the face When holy water slapped our cringing brows… When David Diop joined his compatriot...
Tunde Odesola Five bangs and a drum roll heralded the national anthem. Men in starched babariga and kaftans stood up with hands on the rib cages...
By Suyi Ayodele With US$1 million (N500m) donated to Afghanistan and approval for policewomen in Nigeria to use hijab, is the fog not clearing already? My...
Tunde Odesola Although Oshodi Tapa rose from the ashes of slavery to become a warrior and foremost Yoruba leader over 170 years ago, his footprints on...
By Suyi Ayodele Ko si ìdárí jì f’àwon tó bá dalè Ko si ìdárí jì f’àwon tó bá dalè Ko si ìdárí ajì f’àwon tó bá...
Tunde Odesola When the British-American documentary film producer, Theroux, flew into Lagos from the US in 2010, looking for the hotbed of gangsterism in Nigeria, Oshodi...