Land-grabbing democracy
Land grabbers would seize your land at gunpoint and ask you to…
The terrorists are back
My mystery Hausa friend has been busy with me lately. He has…
Encounter with a prophet
Like Nigeria's multiple-award winning poet, Professor Niyi Osundare, I am also “farmer-born,…
Elections: Lessons from Oyo to Nigeria
“The ides of March are come,” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar says in utter…
Lessons and scandals of this election
Who registered the kids we saw in the election queues in Kano…
The poetics of Bola Tinubu’s palm kernel
Listen to Senator Bola Tinubu Wednesday last week in Abeokuta: “If you…
Anini, Prince of Thieves
General Ibrahim Babangida’s Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) had just finished its…
Yoruba elders and Ulli Beier’s dog
Ibadan of 1914 witnessed the founding of a club with a very…
For judges and teachers
Six weeks after the civil war ended in 1970, Chief Obafemi Awolowo…
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