By Lasisi Olagunju Anyone who has watched a hunting party in action will understand what is going on. What we have is a hunting expedition: beaters...
By Lasisi Olagunju “They chased us away from our farms. We thought it would soon be over. Now, they have also chased us away from our...
By Suyi Ayodele Àmúpìtàn – the one whose deeds will be retold in history. If you answer this name, wisdom dictates that you should be conscious...
By Suyi Ayodele Now that he is at home, what will the court do today when Mallam Nasir el-Rufai’s case comes up? His bail application is...
By Lasisi Olagunju It is either Nasir El-Rufai is a very lucky man, or he is a very strong man. He was arrested by his friends,...
By Lasisi Olagunju I begin with Game of Thrones, a world not far removed from ours, where power, wealth, and revenge are the true currencies of...
One can’t stop imagining that ‘Mallam’ Nasir El-Rufai, the diminutive immediate-past governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna State, ideally fits into the groove of Ivie’s analogy. Ivie, my...
By Festus Adedayo Have you read Niyi Osundare’s poem, The word is an egg? It explores a deep-rooted Yoruba philosophy of the permanence and fragility of...
Tunde Odesola Back in the Italy of 44 BC, there lived a babalawo called Spurinna. Spurinna was a haruspice. In ancient Rome, a haruspice was a...
By Suyi Ayodele How a government that claims to have made huge savings from oil subsidy removal still goes about acquiring foreign loans, as if borrowing...