By Israel Adebiyi Dear Nigerians, Why we no dey ever learn? Once again, we are here — with agbada-wearing fraudsters, WhatsApp prophets of “investment blessings,” and...
By Suyi Ayodele “We have released Northern Nigeria from the leading strings of the treasury. The promising and well conducted youth is now on allowance on...
By Lasisi Olagunju I found myself inventing the above verse as today’s headline. The verse came sounding like “The Lord is my shepherd/ I Shall not...
By Festus Adedayo On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016), Stephen Ellis, British historian and...
Tunde Odesola Nose – off-centre; mouth – misshapen; eyes – squinted; ears – rabbity; every Nigerian is familiar with this green face without a grin. On...
By Israel Adebiyi There is a moment in the iconic series _Breaking Bad_ when Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin, declares, “I...
By Lasisi Olagunju “As an Offa citizen, I am made to look like an inferior being. While competing for anything in the North, I would be...
By Festus Adedayo In July, 2006, John Street, Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the United States’ University of...
By Festus Adedayo At his ancient ‘imperial’ home in Molete, Ibadan last Thursday, I wrote in the condolence register: “He was a man, like French philosopher,...
Tunde Odesola Ikú Bàbá Yèyé o! I hail thee, ‘omo ikú tí ikú ò gbódò pa’ – the child of death, whom death must not kill;...