By Suyi Ayodele “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” William...
By Suyi Ayodele What Nigerians saw in Ibadan on Saturday and the reaction from Abuja were settled by Ifá, very long ago. An Odù Ifá— Ogbè...
By Suyi Ayodele There is a joke about a child who failed his promotion examination. The child devised a painless get-away way to break the bad...
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 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...
By Suyi Ayodele Ìjímèrè, the small brown monkey, is counted among the wisest of the dry-nosed primates. Its resilience is legendary; its endurance unmatched. No other...
By Suyi Ayodele The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates warned that lies are not harmless distortions of reality; they are assaults on truth itself. Falsehood, he argued,...
By Suyi Ayodele Ìyàwó mi tí mo féràn – My wife who I love so much Te ló ti m’órí mi s’ábé – But you said...
By Suyi Ayodele He was meant to be second-in-command to the Owa Obokun of Ijesaland; in reality, he was the town’s de facto ruler. Ògèdèngbé Agbógungbórò...