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The Wayo imprisonment of Bobrisky

On February 18, 1947, the Daily Service newspaper published a story whose theme, like the ancient Secretarybird, has remained with…

7 months ago

I think Tinubu was right

One by one, three Nigerian former military rulers, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, arrived at Babangida’s Hilltop…

8 months ago

Who stole the Yoruba python skin?

One of the thematic preoccupations of the book, What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance, (2014)…

8 months ago

Shhhhh… The president has a flight to catch!

No doubt, photographs evoke metaphors, imageries and diverse interpretations. Imagery was evoked in my mind as I read President Bola…

8 months ago

August 27 and a daughter’s celebration of Abacha

August 27, 2024 was the 39th anniversary of the coup that toppled Gen Muhammadu Buhari, erstwhile GOC 3rd Armored Division…

8 months ago

Nigeria’s dinner with ‘Mugabe’

HAVE you ever read Heidi Holland’s Dinner With Mugabe? It was published in 2012 by a Zimbabwean journalist and columnist…

8 months ago

Nigeria as shock-horror skits

SKITS literally crack ribs with laughter. The line separating fact from fiction or faction (fact and fiction) in skits is…

9 months ago

The python and Tinubu-North’s matrimony

Undoubtedly, the political matrimony between President Bola Tinubu and Northern Nigeria is at Talaq stage. Talaq is the Islamic unilateral repudiation of a marital…

9 months ago

The protest, M̀gbekē and her cutlass

THERE is this anecdote in Igboland of M̀gbekē and her cutlass. By the way, M̀gbekē is a synonym for an…

9 months ago

Dangote and NNPC’s Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo dance

WITHOUT moving his body, African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Akinwumi Adesina, watlzed his tall frame in a dance last week.…

9 months ago

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