My magun experience
There was a funeral ceremony in the neighbourhood. Guests came from Lagos and other big cities. One of the guests,…
Obasanjo And His Worth
Olusegun Obasanjo publicly endorsed Peter Obi for president on New Year’s Day and the Emi Lokan people dismissed what the…
2023: Remembering Lagos’ late labour leader
On his death bed in 2009, when Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited him, the late human rights activist and lawyer, Chief…
They have killed her!
Mothers are unique beings. The Benin people say of mothers: Iye-N’gie – mothers are precious. In my Yoruba heritage, mothers are gold…
Charity begins at Chatham
A man in search of good fortune once approached the village diviner for directions. After casting the divination seeds, the…
The unelected powerful First Ladies of Nigeria
My first beat, in 1999, as a reporter in the Nigerian Tribune, was the office of the wife of Oyo…
Let our judges run from Esu’s gourd of palm wine
Olodumare, the Almighty, sent Obatala down to earth to create land from the water that filled everywhere. Obatala set to…
Between the content of our character and the colour of our currency
There was a Second Republic politician, a stark illiterate, who played a prominent role in helping a particular government to…
Adekunle Ajasin: If only the dead could rise
I was at Saint Andrew’s Cathedral Church, Owo, Ondo State, last Friday, November 11, 2022. The last time I was…
Adamu’s lamentation equals Buhari’s failure
Lord Henry Peter Brougham lived between September 19, 1778 and May 7, 1868. As a British statesman, Brougham was involved…
Kill the suspect, obliterate the clue: Reasons why crimes persist in Nigeria
“Like the biblical joy among the Angels in heaven over a sinner that repents, the arrest of Mr. Emmanuel Ovie…
Amosun and the Japa phenomenon
Senator Ibikunle Amosun was governor of Ogun State between 2011 to 2019. Before then, he was a Nigerian senator for…
Tracing footprints of oil thieves
Nigeria today is one of the poorest countries in the world. Our leaders, however, are the most flamboyant in the…
Kidnap victim Gbenga Owolabi: The ultimate disconnect
I love how Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, described our…
Emilokan, famine and mother killers
If everyone is killing their mothers, must you kill yours too? I will answer this question by drawing strength from…
Queen Elizabeth II: Lessons from a monarch
Edward Mendlowitz, known as Emeritus Partner in “The Partners Network”, an American company supporting accounting practices in the God’s Own…
The skeleton in Ibadan
“And who is my neighbour”? This interrogation came from a lawyer, who came to tempt the wisdom of Jesus Christ…
Wike, South and the sword in Ayu’s hand
Ògún, the god of iron, approached Òrúnmìlà (Father of Divination) to be initiated into the cult of Ifá. Ògún came…
Slavery and slave trade in Buhari’s North
Something terrible is happening in General Muhammadu Buhari’s Northern Nigeria. The slave trade, abolished some 215 years ago is back…
Buhari, monkeys, snakes and termites
Nigeria is a huge crime scene. It has at all strata A-List criminals holding court. And these are very ingenious…
