By Suyi Ayodele My people have different social stratifications. One of them is a group of people they call olórí àpésín. That simply means those who...
By Lasisi Olagunju I have a very senior police officer friend whose nickname is Ambush. On the front of my friend’s left shoulder is an ugly...
By Suyi Ayodele Soldiers voluntarily elected to die the very day they signed up for Military work. They signed up to die at the hands of...
By Lasisi Olagunju On October 29, 1974, the Nigerian Ministry of Defence, through the Ministry of External Affairs, wrote to Nigerian missions and embassies abroad that...
By Suyi Ayodele If I were President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I would choose to answer the name of the sixth child of the Tortoise. According to...
By Lasisi Olagunju “What is the State?” Louis Blanc, politician and historian in 19th century France, asks himself. He answers: “The State, under democratic rule, is...
By Suyi Ayodele There was a man called Ofinaboorun. That is a deep Ekiti name. Meanings are lost in interpretations. So, you may not get the...
By Lasisi Olagunju Wise old Tortoise sat his children down. “My dear ones, two things are essential for your growth and wellbeing in life: Always tell...
By Suyi Ayodele If you have not seen the one-minute-30 seconds video of Lagosians scrambling for rice at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) facility, you must...
By Lasisi Olagunju Preparatory to his exit from power last year, President Muhammadu Buhari warned all of us to let him be after office: “Nobody should...