“Who build dis gada?” and other stories
For Nigerians old enough to remember the 1990s, the phrase “Who build dis gada here?” was proudly hung on Brigadier…
The Agẹmọ curse and Nigeria’s free fall
“THEY just tend not to be honest. Nigerians as a group, frankly, are marvelous scammers. I mean, it is in…
Did Abacha actually die on top of a woman?
THE Yoruba establish a direct causal relationship between tragic news and emotional grief. They observe that if the ears are…
Akpabio, Oshiomhole: How sex threatens the Nigerian State
Did you listen to last week’s broadside from Senate President Godswill Akpabio against former Edo State governor, Senator Adams Oshiomhole? If you did, you must have caught a glimpse of…
Gbaja gets a reprieve
A few weeks before his assassination on February 13, 1976, one Obarogie Ohanbamu, who was a Senior Lecturer in the…
Oriire 44 and our double standard
FRIDAY’S announcement of the release of the Oriire captives sent Nigerians into a state of collective rejoicing. It beautifully confirmed…
Gbajabiamila on the crucifix
THE late Chief Joseph Folahan (JF) Odunjo left behind an allegory that perfectly mirrors today’s most notorious national scandal. It…
Hunger: In defence of Bayo Onanuga
The words, “hunger” and “Onanuga” are almost homophones; words of similar sounds. I am goaded on by the Yoruba epistemology…
Thumbs up for Sani: Terrorists must die!
Kudos have rightly gone the way of President Bola Tinubu recently. It is gladsome that a presidency which, for 37…
Northern Generals’ anger at ‘North as Nigeria’s mortuary’
NORTHERN Nigeria is angry. This anger is not strictly borne from the unremitting, horrific spillage of blood on its soil.…
Daniel Bwala on Gov Makinde, and one other story
AS a Yoruba proverb suggests, when a fox carries a bulging eye, it is not the chicken’s place to draw…
June 12: Broken bottle on our forehead, bludgeon on the back, Democracy, is this your face?
It was the year 2000 or 2001. We were seated almost in a circumference. The venue was the Presidential Villa…
Sunday Igboho’s Iru Ekun as Sòbìà, the guinea worm
MAKE no mistake about it: Yorubaland is encircled by terrorists. And Nigeria is today as sour as vinegar. The president’s birthplace is…
For my boss, Chimaroke Nnamani, @ 66
Yesterday, May 30, was the 66th birthday of my former boss, Dr Chimaroke Ogbonnia Nnamani. Born that day in 1960, he…
Tinubu’s 3rd anniversary, Ogun deity and voodoo vote numbers
SEEING how empires die, strongmen collapse and kingdoms go up in ruins, Yoruba seek to showcase the brevity of life.…
Boko Haram’s slaughter of Mathematics in Oyo
Nigeria has become the proverbial forest of the heartless, the Igbó Odájú, where mothers must take extreme care to double-strap…
Was the Awolowo, Akintola crisis instigated by enemies?
William Shakespeare, in Othello, warned of the destructive power of envy and manipulation when he wrote: “O, beware, my lord, of…
Was the Awolowo, Akintola crisis instigated by enemies?
William Shakespeare, in Othello, warned of the destructive power of envy and manipulation when he wrote: “O, beware, my lord, of…
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Why South Africans murder Nigerians in cold blood
A commenter on X, obviously a South African national, with the name Paul, reacted to a CableNews April 27 report that two Nigerians were killed…
Is Ibadan Tinubu’s 2027 Strait of Hormuz?
Yesterday, Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, rallied Nigeria’s opposition political parties to Ibadan. According to him in his welcome address,…
