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Yoruba’s S’ogigun and Old Soldier Buhari
SOMETIME in 2015, General Ibrahim Babangida, during a visit to him by General Muhammadu Buhari to seek his support for his dream to become Nigeria’s civilian president, urged Buhari to go ahead. IBB cited the closing remarks of General…
Thorn-filled journey through Law School, Lagos Campus
THE temptation to comment today on the surfeit of political issues raging in our troubled country is very high. Ranging from the insipid, the insulting to the idiotic, a commentator has in them an overflow of what is termed “commentarial…
Sowore and allegory of a rat that saw tomorrow
Many commentators on the attempted abduction of rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, right inside a courtroom of the Federal High Court, Abuja by men of the State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services, (DSS)…
Between the police and Abdullahi’s Hate Bill
IN fulfilment of the Socratic dictum which says that an unexamined life is not worth living, I want to begin this piece by playing the devil’s advocate for Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, sponsor of the Hate Speech Bill which is provoking…
Kogi’s ta-ta-ta-ta-ta and Nigeria’s head of the Medusa
Three things appear very tragic in last week’s Kogi governorship/senatorial elections. They are, first, the video that went viral of the young Ebira ladies chanting the panegyrics of Governor Yahaya Bello at a pre-election rally in the…
Nigeria is a messed up country, right?
THIS is confession time: My pessimism about Nigeria is as huge as its expansive landscape. Like Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, I believed that the beautiful Nigerian was either not yet born, born and died prematurely…
The trials of Brother Osinbajo
Anyone who has access to a political barometer will see clearly that Aso Rock is quaking at the moment. The dusts the quake is provoking is so huge that it can block nasal passages. You only need to make use of the barometer and become…
When Esu, god of construction and destruction, mapped own role in Nigeria
The Agbekoya war is indisputably one of the focal points of the most successive resistance to the Nigerian state. The peasant farmers union had gone berserk in the Western Region, in protestation against high taxation during the civil war.…
The faith vultures of Dutse and our carcasses
Trapped for about thirty minutes in a lone-occupied lift a few minutes before I began to write this piece, I frenetically prayed to God. So, I can connect with what Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, United States, Ebenezer…
A postmortem on Dele Giwa’s mangled body
SINCE that dark Sunday morning on October 19, 1986 when renowned journalist, Dele Giwa, was parcel-bombed by a God-knows-who, Nigerian journalism, Nigeria and government-journalism relationship have not recovered from that nightmarish…