Tunde Odesola The darkness was so heavy you could touch it. ’Twas so thick it could stain. Sinister and choking, the darkness screened off the sky...
By Suyi Ayodele The Nigerian senate last week found Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagban guilty of “bringing the presiding officer and the entire senate to public opprobrium.” The...
By Lasisi Olagunju “Possibly he cohabited with Miss Bloggs, but don’t mention it in front of his wife, let the sleeping dogs lie.” Gordon Jarvie’s ‘Dictionary...
By Lasisi Olagunju The English language is a compulsive borrower; a great debtor. It borrows any word that catches its fancy anyhow and from anywhere. From...
By Festus Adedayo In South Africa under the presidency of Jacob Zuma, any analysis of government and governance without factoring sex into the mix was tame...
Tunde Odesola Dear Uncle Ahmed, Kowtowing is when a kowtower bows before wealth, power and influence. But, Your Excellency, when I refer to you as ‘Uncle...
By Suyi Ayodele Counsel: ‘Miss Gibson, in this dwelling on Van Buren Street where you live, which the President owns, is there any means of private...
By Lasisi Olagunju In his column last Saturday, my friend and brother, Farooq Kperogi, reminisced his previous piece on unusual Muslim names in Nigeria which do...
By Lasisi Olagunju There is a royal family in Lagos called Oniru. In the earliest times when there was no Lagos and Eko knew its boundaries,...
By Festus Adedayo On Wednesday, February 25, 2025, a very toxic but innocuous advertorial was published in the Punch newspaper. It was authored by a group...