Osun Assembly’s ludicrous lecture
THIS piece, lets mention here at the beginning, is not about the keypad warriors deployed to take down the Osun…
Now that the ‘North’ has found oil
It’s now official: the North has found oil. The post-oil era has been here for years now, but let’s not…
Sifuba, the shameless Speaker
This week, a 19-year-old monstrosity called Brian Nguyen “made history” by becoming the first transgender woman to win a local…
Rescuing Yorubaland
Yorubaland, not just the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, is under siege. The land is crimson with the blood of the innocent. Nomadic…
Poor Lagos! Your history is daily written by outsiders
I shall begin this piece by saying that unlike most of the loudmouths who ascribe every good thing in Lagos…
The value of Peter Obi
As I begin these lines, I remember 1998 like yesterday. An old man on the street where I lived in…
The filthy stories coming out of Kogi
SOMETHING quite typical of Western societies happened in the UK this week. Sharon Taylor, a cheating wife who made false…
Obajana, Yahaya Bello and the battle for the homeland
In recent days, the Kogi State governor, Mr. Yahaya Bello, has been in a battle with Africa’s richest man, Alhaji…
Nigeria: Walking into tragedy once again
TRAGEDY of a very unusual though not unprecedented kind befell Dutse Gogo town in Kwara State this week. An apparently…
Nkechi Blessing’s salacious souvenirs
THE world over, but especially in Black Africa where procreation is treasured, it is the desire of parents to be…
No government can ban ponmo
Muhammad Yakubu, Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Zaria, crafted copious cant this week, leading…
Of pastors and the witchcrafting of mothers
For some time now, a strange thing has been going on in the Nigerian society with clergymen tormenting many women’s…
#Bring back our Yoruba childhood
In Yorubaland, I have lived at various times in Ibadan, Eko, Ikorodu, Ondo town, Ile-Ife and Ilorin and I can…
Who will rescue Nigeria’s varsity students?
“Do not ever call this line again in your life!”, the magisterial voice bellowed from the other end. The student…
Driving around Dapo Abiodun’s Ogun
I must shelve this week’s original intervention and go into something entirely different. In my short odyssey I have endured…
This house of hunger
Dambudzo Marechera, the Zimbabwean writer whom the Bard of Isara referenced as being “bohemian in temperament”, is long dead and…
When will these Fulani provocations end?
Let’s start this piece on December 9, 2008 when I covered the burial of Oluwaleke Olalekan Akande, one of the…
Time to end ASUU’s fraud
A caveat: this intervention is not about Nigeria’s university lecturers as individuals. As a product of the system, I am…
Tobi Amusan and the racist rabble
This week, the sensational sprinter and track queen, Tobi Amusan, won the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 100 metres…
Between Aregbesola and his US ‘recorder’
I have read some of the essays justifying or making excuses for the Nigerian-American citizen who uploaded an encounter between…
