The Customs recruitment fiasco
The story of Nevada Pierre, the sensational three-year-old American soccer prodigy from Florida, is fast becoming an archetype of how…
Toluwanisings’ death and social media prosecutors
My eyes are misty as I write this. I have spent the better part of the morning listening repeatedly to…
Ebola: Day pandemic killed an Aláàfin
Nigeria is treating the reported Ebola case discovered in Abuja with its usual levity. Authorities should remember that if you…
‘I won’t be everywhere’ as chichidodo, maggots-loving bird
THE ancient wisdom of our forefathers we grew up to meet is that, no one delegates the very personal task…
As my chicks played with hawks of Zamfara…
ACCEPTING to be in Zamfara State a little over a week ago appeared to me as the dangerous dalliance between…
30-day fuel: Alálùpàídà and his devil’s water
WHEN the Nigerian government announced a 30-day temporary fuel price intervention last Thursday, likes began to attract likes. In the…
Akpabio and Obono-Obla’s bala-bala
WHEN your speech appears to contain gibberish or is empty, a famous Yoruba slang gives such talk the moniker, bala-bala…
Our president is ready to kick, ready to work
WHEN President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua departed the shores of Nigeria for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia on November 23, 2009,…
Good night, Dr. Ben Ohiaeri
ABOUT two years ago, I received a referral to meet Dr. Benjamin Nnamdi Ohiaeri, a renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist. He…
El-Rufai’s betrayers and betrayals
MY first encounter with Nasir El-Rufai was in year 2000 at the Akodo Resort, a popular Lagos beachfront getaway along…
Wike-APC: Fights always end adultery
ANCIENT Yoruba says, he who seeks to purchase only the fresh head and limbs of a tortoise will end up…
A brother called Judas: Is Charles Soludo Cain?
HISTORY records that the most fatal stabs always come from within oneself. In other words, there is a motif of…
Two savage Kano murders, 45 years apart
Last Wednesday, popular political commentator, Ibrahim Khalil (aka Dan Shagamu) was brutally murdered in Kumbotso, Kano. He had his throat slit
Amódemájá and Nigeria’s political paradise of lies
In 1969, legendary Yoruba Sakara music lord, Yusuff Olatunji, serenaded and celebrated the sterling qualities of the Seriki of Egbaland,…
Elegy for Dotun Oladipo
When his longtime associate and composer, Akanni Fatai (alias B’olodeoku), died in the late 1970s, the Apala music emperor, Ayinla Omowura,…
Tinubu, Atiku as Awodi, Opeere birds in feather-plucking war
The 2027 election campaigns promise a reactivation of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Republics’ campaigns of acrimony and disturbing…
Good morning, Tony!
In June, 2006 when I moved into Enugu, it was a huge culture shock for my family and me. One…
Osun: The mourning after
Speaking after an infrastructure inspection, Governor Ademola Adeleke openly backed President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid. He warmly referred to him as…
Osun: EFCC and the war this week
MIDNIGHT was just shyly unfolding its grim loneliness over the Coal City. I nudged the nose of my blue Peugeot…
The President’s Silk cigarettes and all that
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, grabbed the headlines recently. In a sensational repertoire, he…
