VOICE OF COURAGE

This is a 2019 piece which is repeated in the light of the events of the last one week – another mass kidnapping, fuel price hike and its denials; NSA’s bombshell and the attempt to help him deny what he said. IT was by chance that I …

I really appreciate your write-up on the attitude of Yorubas towards their roots. I became so sad when I read that part where you made comparison between President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on their activities…

As America battled her over-half a million casualties from COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines began to trickle into the country, a friend of mine’s call from the US to me adverted my mind to the crises ahead of Nigeria. As we spoke, our talks…

Our parents out of ignorance over the demographic contradictions in the North were fond of saying “Gambari pa Fulani  o lejo, Hausa lo pa Hausa”, meaning there shouldn’t be any fuss when a Gambari man kills a Fulani, as it is intra-  Hausa…

Dateline: March 5, 2021, Ibadan Today , March 5, 2021, again represents one more journey in humiliation of the Yoruba nation by the Fulani. It also  marks a day of shameful silence or acquiescence of our leaders, both political and…

HOW fast a country can degenerate into a failed republic is presently playing out in Nigeria such that it is tottering towards the edge, unhinged in the hands of leaders who are prepared to do it in in an unapologetic manner.The same people…

ENGINEER B. Oloro was the rector of the now vandalised Lagos State Polytechnic from 1992 to 1999, a school built by Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, the man who developed what we now know as Lagos in just four years. His bright idea of metro…

THE appointment of non-career ambassadors or diplomats by nations is nothing new as it has always been the norm right from time immemorial. Benjamin Franklin, the father of the United States nationalism, a charismatic personality who had…

THIS must be a distressful season for Professor Wole Soyinka as Nigeria journeys through its peculiar season of Kongi and the madmen. The Prof has spent almost a lifetime teaching in the classroom as well as national and international fora…

WE are in deep mourning as death took one of the most dependable Awoists, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande on Thursday at the ripe age of 91. Papa LKJ was the last of the UPN Governors Awolowo sent out in the second Republic to convince this…