Suicide: Akpabio’s sermon on Mount Callous
Somewhere around 74 CE, a remnant group of Jews taking refuge in a mountain fortress called Masada decided to end…
Refineries: A country paying people to do nothing will
It has been impossible to forget a song used in a movie titled Alaafin Kanran and aired in the 80s:…
O earth, hear that Plateau widow, victim of Fulani terror
WHEN they sleep tonight, surrounded by guns and mortars, and by whores and wine, the people who rule Nigeria’s Plateau…
A lawmaker’s desecration of Oyo State House of Assembly
IF a person is meant for the mud, they will wallow in it even if you plant them in a…
How could the Nigerian movie industry have started in the 90s?
I will start this week’s piece from an unusual angle. Sometime in the early 90s in Lagos, a young musician,…
Who bewitched Nigeria’s opposition?
EVEN if you have lost your copy of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, I bet you still…
No to unregulated, unguarded Iru Ekun
In Yorubaland Encircled (June 11, 2022), I wrote: “Death lurks in Yoruba forests. Farming is risky: rape without a slit…
Why ask military retirees to “Yakubu manage”?
In his epochal memoir Why We Struck, Adewale Ademoyega, one of the majors who staged Nigeria’s first military coup, gave…
That lunatic repatriation demand by looters’ republic
In the Book of Ecclesiastes 8:11, King Solomon wrote: “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore…
FG’s suppression of Ademola Adeleke’s Osun
There are reasons politically motivated explanations dressed in anti-graft garb don’t fly. The public can see through pretended patriotism.
The curious detention of Osun SSG
Until the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, released a curious statement seeking to justify this week’s detention of…
Argentina and fraud are like five and six
It is no coincidence that Argentina is currently the most hated team in world football. Argentina’s players are violent, cynical,…
Oriire saga and Makinde’s call for global scrutiny
In May, the United States government released a report that unmasked the terrible underbelly of terrorist violence in Nigeria. In…
The FIFA-Argentina World Cup con
IF you don’t know why the Teranga Lions of Senegal staged a walk-off at the last AFCON final, go watch…
South African xenophobes and their war crimes
One of the most distressing evils in journalism is the deodorization of evil: what I called a false category or…
The virus ravaging Nigeria
The South African poet, Oswald Mtshali, did not have Nigeria’s North in mind when he wrote that “Nightfall comes like/…
It’s time to make Ronaldo’s haters pay
For many years, I stayed completely away from the game due to heartbreak over Nigeria’s loss to Italy at USA…
Ayodele Fayose’s criminal incitement to violence in Oyo State
ON January 19, 2015, Nigerians woke up to a scandalous advertorial splashed across the front pages of two national dailies…
The steps Yorubaland must take to survive
IF the demonic spectacle of a federal minister rejoicing that he has fulfilled his vow to “put fire” in Oyo…
To pardon terrorists, kill them first
In Chapter 1 of the Book of Romans, the Bible lists murder among the offences that are “worthy of death".…
