Tunde Odesola H-o-r-r-o-r!? The lamp has gone out in the ancestral grove. Frightening darkness reigns. I step inside the grove, I grope on staggering steps. The...
By Lasisi Olagunju For ten clean years (November 2015 to 7 October, 2025), Mahmud Yakubu was the chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). On...
By Tony Erha “Agha tot’ ikolo, t’ amen mie ede”; A Benin idiom holds sway that; “When the earthworm dominates a discussion, the rainfall would be...
By Tony Erha “If it is the correct position that the museum in controversy belongs to private investors and that Edo State has no share in...
By Suyi Ayodele The festive period is here, yet one wonders how the sound of fireworks will affect us, given our recent experiences in the hands...
By Lasisi Olagunju “There were many famous warriors in the village during the pillaging by the Fulani and yet the village was swept off almost completely...
By Festus Adedayo Famous Ogbomoso, Oyo State-born bard, Foyanmu Ogundare, had some words for evil spins and spinners. Religionists call these spinners “workers of iniquity”. They...
Tunde Odesola Accident and misfortune have no permanent abodes, though both roam aimfully about, looking to pounce. They are identical twins with different temperaments: one sprints,...
By Suyi Ayodele On Sunday, June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte 1, the returnee Emperor of France, marched the French Imperial Army against the two armies of...
By Lasisi Olagunju “You taught me language, and my profit on it / Is, I know how to curse” (William Shakespeare: ‘The Tempest’). The Nigerian government...