By Icon-James Tam The renewed push for the creation of Toru-Ibe State has once again brought the long-standing conversation around political inclusion and fair representation to...
By Lasisi Olagunju June 2015, freshly minted President Muhammadu Buhari hosted General Olusegun Obasanjo at the Villa. “Whatever anyone might have done to you in the...
By William Bozimo There are seasons in politics. Some are sown in silence, others harvested in thunder. As 2031 draws nearer, the Ijaw people of Delta...
Why should I bother myself with what is done to my body when I die? Oyomesi (the council of seven high-ranking chiefs in the Oyo Empire)...
Tunde Odesola With tonnes of turmoil – the weight of Olumo Rock – pressing down on my soul, I sit at my desk and stare at...
By Israel Adebiyi In literature, few tales haunt the conscience as profoundly as that of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. A former convict hardened...
By Suyi Ayodele It was meant to be a joyous occasion. Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has just been affirmed as the governor of the...
By Lasisi Olagunju She spoke with so much authority on the sleaze and dirt that make our lawmakers so fat like the well-fed pigs in Animal...
By Lasisi Olagunju Odysseus survived the Trojan War. He experienced “blissful forgetfulness” in the land of the Lotus-Eaters; he was captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus; he...
By Festus Adedayo Sometime in the early 2000s, at the cusp of Tafa Balogun’s glory as the Inspector General of Police, an oil magnate from a...