By Suyi Ayodele As the sitting president in 2016, General Muhammadu Buhari told the Emir of Katsina that “It would be foolhardy for someone to just...
By Suyi Ayodele Marcus Brutus, the villain of William Shakespear’s epic drama, Julius Caesar, poetically defines the emergence of dictators thus: …But ‘tis a common proof,...
By Suyi Ayodele There can be only one Oba (king) in a palace. That was how our forebears arranged our traditional settings. The saying in Yoruba...
By Suyi Ayodele Lagos does not have restraints when it comes to spending money. His first name is Nínál’owó (Money is meant to be spent). His...
By Suyi Ayodele “Could you ‘please, possibly, perhaps’, send me to Kano?” I told my editor last Wednesday. “You will meet me there” was his response....
By Suyi Ayodele Oluwafemi Ositade is a 17-year-old student of the Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State. He is a child every parent would want, and every...
By Suyi Ayodele We were in Abuja on an official assignment; one of the entertainment engagements of Globacom then. The phone rang. The leader of the...
By Suyi Ayodele The tiger approaches the dog for a game. It offers its tail to the dog to touch and play with. The innocent dog,...
By Suyi Ayodele Date was Monday, August 29, 1955. Oba Isaac Babalola Akinyele, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, sat on his throne. There was an august visitor...
By Suyi Ayodele Nigeria’s most celebrated social deviant, Idris Olanrewaju Okunneye, also known as Bobrisky, has been in the news in the last two weeks. Apart...