By Suyi Ayodele Date was Monday, August 29, 1955. Oba Isaac Babalola Akinyele, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, sat on his throne. There was an august visitor...
By Lasisi Olagunju The audience at the 1903 (third year) lecture of the Royal African Society in London listened with rapt attention as African nationalist, Dr....
By Suyi Ayodele Nigeria’s most celebrated social deviant, Idris Olanrewaju Okunneye, also known as Bobrisky, has been in the news in the last two weeks. Apart...
By Lasisi Olagunju In May, 1891, James Richard Jewett of Brown University, Providence, United States, presented a paper on ‘Arabic Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases’ to the...
By Suyi Ayodele Benjamin Franklin alias Mrs. Silence Dogwood (January 17, 1706-April 17, 1790), was one of the greatest statesmen of the United States of America....
By Lasisi Olagunju From Lagos, one Ayinde Salihu wrote to the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern Region, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, on 19 January,...
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...