If Tinubu were today’s opposition leader
I would have agreed that protests would happen on August 1, 2024, if the graph had been plotted by Bola…
Supper for Nigeria’s Àkébàjé
Every home has at least one spoilt child. Such a child is known as an Àkébàjé among my people. The…
Tinubu, ECOWAS and its rebellious boys
I danced on Sunday when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was re-elected as Chairman of ECOWAS. I rejoiced because his re-election…
Nigeria nor be Kenya
Kabiyesi, the message which I bring you today is the message of all the women who have left their stalls,…
Hunger for us, jet for them
Good morning, sir, what do you think about the South-West governors’ forum and their recent collaboration efforts? Let’s leave Tinubu…
Between our govt and New York Times
THE New York Times in its June 11, 2024, edition described Nigeria as a nation of 200 million citizens who…
Distinguished Senator Cow and his human rights
AS the sitting president in 2016, General Muhammadu Buhari told the Emir of Katsina that “It would be foolhardy for…
The king has no friends
Marcus Brutus, the villain of William Shakespeare’s epic drama, Julius Caesar, poetically defines the emergence of dictators thus: ...But ‘tis…
One Kano, two Emirs
There can be only one Oba (king) in a palace. That was how our forebears arranged our traditional settings. The…
My pension, your pension in the hands of ‘Lagos’
Lagos does not have restraints when it comes to spending money. His first name is Nínál’owó (Money is meant to…
Northern Nigeria’s paedophilic mass weddings
"Could you ‘please, possibly, perhaps’, send me to Kano?" I told my editor last Wednesday. “You will meet me there”…
Minister Tahir Mamman and his varsity age limit
Oluwafemi Ositade is a 17-year-old student of the Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State. He is a child every parent would…
Mike Adenuga’s 71 resilient steps
We were in Abuja on an official assignment; one of the entertainment engagements of Globacom then. The phone rang. The…
Why were Miyetti Allah and Tinubu’s Iyaloja in Ibadan?
The tiger approaches the dog for a game. It offers its tail to the dog to touch and play with.…
Onitiri-Abiola and the madness in Ibadan
Date was Monday, August 29, 1955. Oba Isaac Babalola Akinyele, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, sat on his throne. There was…
Bobrisky and our other S/He offsprings
Nigeria’s most celebrated social deviant, Idris Olanrewaju Okunneye, also known as Bobrisky, has been in the news in the last…
Kaduna’s debt and unEl-Rufaic silence
BENJAMIN Franklin alias Mrs. Silence Dogwood (January 17, 1706-April 17, 1790), was one of the greatest statesmen of the United…
Can I tell our First Lady that graduates drive cabs here, too?
My people have different social stratifications. One of them is a group of people they call olórí àpésín. That simply…
Odi, Zaki Biam, Okuama: Beyond sentiments
Soldiers voluntarily elected to die the very day they signed up for military work. They signed up to die at…
APC and lesson from last child of Tortoise
If I were President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I would choose to answer the name of the sixth child of Tortoise.…


