By Suyi Ayodele On his death bed in 2009, when Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited him, the late human rights activist and lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, pleaded...
By Lasisi Olagunju There is a trending video of a senile Paul Biya, President of Cameroon, at the just concluded US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC....
Tunde Odesola When Frenchman Jules Rimet became FIFA President in 1921, his mission was to wean football off the dominance of the Olympic Games, and project...
By Suyi Ayodele Mothers are unique beings. The Benin people say of mothers: Iye-N’gie – mothers are precious. In my Yoruba heritage, mothers are gold (Ìyá...
Tunde Odesola Cristiano Ronaldo wasn’t born in a manger to a carpenter father and a virgin mother. His father was a soldier who fought in Angola...
By Suyi Ayodele A man in search of good fortune once approached the village diviner for directions. After casting the divination seeds, the diviner told the...
Tunde Odesola The wine from the palm tree intoxicates the gourd in Iwo. Explaining the meaning of Oduduwa, the first ruler of Ile-Ife, the Oluwo says...
By Suyi Ayodele My first beat, in 1999, as a reporter in the Nigerian Tribune, was the office of the wife of Oyo State Governor. The...
By Suyi Ayodele Olodumare, the Almighty, sent Obatala down to Earth to create land from the water that filled everywhere. Obatala set to work, assisted by...
By Suyi Ayodele There was a Second Republic politician, a stark illiterate, who played a prominent role in helping a particular government to power. He was...