The West is no model
It is usual, because of the challenges we face, to seek emotional comfort by pointing to the civilized climes, the…
Of bouncy babies and terrorist teachers
In 1729 the Anglican cleric and satirist Jonathan Swift, intent on shocking the Irish society out of its eccentricities, gave…
Tracking the Sanwo-Olu train
Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital and my state of origin, is quite a story. Having played football, hustled with drums, served…
Nigeria’s money magicians
If the case of the four teenage ritualists who decapitated17-year-old Sofiat Pelumi and were caught in the process of burning…
Like their movies, like their lives
Recently, two overbleached, treacherous termagants drew the curtains on their marriages on Twitter. Evidencing the Yoruba proverb that a child…
Nigeria: How to become rich and famous
If the case of Nigeria’s clerical rave of the moment, Evangelist Funmilayo Adebayo (Mummy G.O), illustrates anything, it is the…
Buharists should not shout betrayal
In East of Eden, a novel inspired by the Biblical Cain and Abel story, the character Charles Trask drugs his…
Malam Malami’s mendacity
As is his wont, Malam Abubakar Malami (SAN), Nigeria’s Minister of Justice, berated southern governors this week. An obstructionist par…
#Bring back our drinking water
Even the most optimistic observer of Nigeria’s sorry nationhood would be absolutely gutted by the video published on SaharaReporters’ website…
Another December of misery
It’s Christmas once again, that season defined by the holiday mood, and Nigerians are once again holidaying their suffering and…
Death by invitation
In the Nigerian novelist, Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel, a 21-year-old youth deliberately orchestrates his own death. Here’s the…
Firming up the electoral system
Elections, as they say, have consequences, but so does the entire electoral system, and in a more significant manner. When…
EFCC is gradually becoming the new SARS
FOR years, Nigerians experienced unspeakable horrors at the hands of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police. But…
In search of people of value
If you are a man wearing native attire right now (buba and sokoto, Senator, babaringa, etc), check your trousers: you…
A pestilential pastorate
A popular Yoruba folk song proclaims the following: “Bi me l’owo l’omode o, ma ni l’agba, alailolowo l’omode o, e…
Senator Lawan’s servile Senate
In yet another pernicious episode confining Nigeria’s future to the garbage dump, the Senate, this week, approved the sums of…
Due process for terrorists
MINISTER of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (retd), last week, put up a stiff defence of the establishment. Right at…
FG and Madam Diezani’s brassieres
DECADES ago, the Yoruba thespian, Tajudeen Oyewole, a.ka Abija, ruled the airwaves, a foil to the inimitable Fadeyi Oloro (real…
Why separatists should not be trusted with power
“And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to…
There are no farmers/herders clashes in Nigeria
FALSE categories, in part because of the ontological link between humanity and falsehood, are an inevitable, and perhaps inerasable, feature…
