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Fasoranti and rise of Nigeria’s un-Nigerian President
The killing on Friday of the daughter of the 94-year-old leader of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba group, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, may yet be throwing up two apparent equations in post-Fulani herdsmen- sympathetic Nigerian leadership which may begin in…
Munching sour Nigeria over delicious bowls of pounded yam
WEDNESDAY last week looked like a perfect day to escape from all the spirit-sagging, smelly stories oozing out of Nigeria. You could suffocate amid its hovering hail. Attacks against Muhammadu Buhari and his government’s proposal of a…
Soyinka and murderers of memory
TWO seemingly unconnected events occurred in the last two weeks, with very serious social implications for the polity. One was the Muhammadu Buhari government’s return of the teaching of History as a standalone subject in all basic and…
Buratai’s brute bruises on Nigerian troops
Whether the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai, failed to think through his statement last Tuesday condemning Nigerian military troops who are on the frontline of fighting the Boko Haram insurgency or he was just being magisterial…
Boycotting killers’ bloody beef in Kumuyi’s cow country
As one of the two guest lecturers at a June 12, 1993 election commemorative anniversary and celebration of the unique proclamation of the day as Democracy Day in Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari, held in Ibadan, Oyo State last week, I…
Seyi Makinde’s cancellation of N3000 school fees
Did Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State realise that, in his first official pronouncement on May 29, 2019 stopping the payment of N3000 fees by school pupils, he had unwittingly provoked a strong ideological sentiment which had been bottled…
Allegory of the talking bird and our dwindling quality of mercy
A couple of weeks ago in Abuja, a medical doctor, Daniel Eitokpah, had attempted to revive one Arowosaiye, said to be a gospel artist with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, who had just hanged himself. Eitokpah, a guest in the…
Your Excellency, have you gone to Ipebi?
In 72 hours from now, the four-yearly ritual of swearing in men into sacred office of governor of Nigerian states will commence. Like in all rituals, regard would be had to precedents or what Yoruba call isese. As the oath-taking…
Your Excellency, the chickens are home to roost
In the next few days, specifically nine days from today, the party will be over between many of the current state governors and their mandates to steer the ships of their respective states. One of the philosophers whose essays speak to the…
Buhari, Miyetti Allah and Faleti’s Ogun Awitele
WHEN the news filtered in that the Muhammadu Buhari government, embarrassed into a scamper by the spate of killings of innocent Nigerians in Zamfara State and other parts of the North-West of Nigeria, had sent a delegation to meet with the…