By Festus Adedayo Through its ancient mythology, Yoruba had a counterpoise of the western Frankenstein monster. It’s a negatively phenomenal child called Àjàntálá. In folklore and...
By Tunde Odesola I’ll beat about the bush because a hunter beats about the bush for reasons, which include awakening the bush, calling attention to his...
By Suyi Ayodele “Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise”, Proverbs 6:6. The business colossus and owner of Globacom, the nation’s...
By Lasisi Olagunju “I am a defector, my dictionary defines the act of defecting as ‘abandoning a person or a cause, apostacy, revolt, backsliding.’ Not to...
By Festus Adedayo It was almost impossible not to be infected by the joy writ large on the face of the One-party state Villa-fawning group this...
By Israel Adebiyi Dear Nigerians, Why we no dey ever learn? Once again, we are here — with agbada-wearing fraudsters, WhatsApp prophets of “investment blessings,” and...
By Suyi Ayodele “We have released Northern Nigeria from the leading strings of the treasury. The promising and well conducted youth is now on allowance on...
By Lasisi Olagunju I found myself inventing the above verse as today’s headline. The verse came sounding like “The Lord is my shepherd/ I Shall not...
By Festus Adedayo On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016), Stephen Ellis, British historian and...
Tunde Odesola Nose – off-centre; mouth – misshapen; eyes – squinted; ears – rabbity; every Nigerian is familiar with this green face without a grin. On...