Category: Column

By Suyi Ayodele “Dear Ajanlekoko Oriojobi Samuel (real name withheld), Reg Number: 2125512372451F. 2025 UTME Result: Underaged and Under-Performed.” With the above terse message from the Joint Admission and Matriculation…

By Suyi Ayodele Yoruba name for fever is Ibà. There is also a town in Yorubaland called Ibà (the same pronunciation as fever), in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun…

By Suyi Ayodele “Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise”, Proverbs 6:6. The business colossus and owner of Globacom, the nation’s giant telecommunication outfit, Dr.…

Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the North and Our Votes By Suyi Ayodele “We have released Northern Nigeria from the leading strings of the treasury. The promising and well conducted youth is now…

By Suyi Ayodele Democracy is sweet, especially when jeun soke is the doctrinal philosophy that undergirds it. Read this: “The chairman of the House Committee on FCT, Mukhata Aliyu Betara,…

By Suyi Ayodele “I am happy the mangroves are coming back. I feel happy because for a longtime now, we haven’t had fish, no crabs; life has not been easy.…

By Suyi Ayodele Counsel: ‘Miss Gibson, in this dwelling on Van Buren Street where you live, which the President owns, is there any means of private access one could use…

By Suyi Ayodele Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, 1992/1993 academic session. Trendy Professor Adebayo Williams strolled into the class and gave us a term paper to write: “Chaka is a…

By Suyi Ayodele Muhammadu Buhari contested the 2015 election as Mai Gaskiya (the truthful one). He promised to publish his asset declaration form. He never did for eight years. For…

By Suyi Ayodeji When I read the common position the former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi and his counterpart from Kaduna, Nasir el-Rufai, pushed in Abuja last week about…