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...
Tunde Odesola Guitar Boy, Sir Victor Uwaifo, is dead. But the ‘Mami Water’, which he saw at the Bar Beach and sang about in 1966 when...
By Suyi Ayodele An Ibadan man accompanied his wife and daughter to the market in search of salt to add to their tasteless pot of soup....
By Lasisi Olagunju A colleague yesterday shared a 1992 campaign video of Chief M.K.O. Abiola promising to demystify governance in Nigeria and stop “people’s heads” from...
By Suyi Ayodele The land of Samaria was once under intense hunger. There was hunger in the land, occasioned by a serious famine. The famine was...