Category: Column

Northern Nigeria’s Paedophilic Mass Weddings “Could you ‘please, possibly, perhaps’, send me to Kano?” I told my editor last Wednesday. “You will meet me there” was his response. I laughed.…

Minister Tahir Mamman And His Varsity Age Limit. Oluwafemi Ositade is a 17-year-old student of the Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State. He is a child every parent would want, and…

Mr Jaguda, Proceed To Prison Before Your Beans Gets Cold Mr Jaguda proceed to prison before your beans gets cold The best place to eat beans is prison. You eat…

Mike Adenuga’s 71 Resilient Steps We were in Abuja on an official assignment; one of the entertainment engagements of Globacom then. The phone rang. The leader of the team, a…

Why Were Miyetti Allah And Tinubu’s Iyaloja In Ibadan? The tiger approaches the dog for a game. It offers its tail to the dog to touch and play with. The…

Onitiri-Abiola And The Madness In Ibadan Date was Monday, August 29, 1955. Oba Isaac Babalola Akinyele, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, sat on his throne. There was an august visitor to…

For Yoruba Muslims And Pentecostals The audience at the 1903 (third year) lecture of the Royal African Society in London listened with rapt attention as African nationalist, Dr. Edward Blyden,…

Bobrisky And Our Other S/He Offspring Nigeria’s most celebrated social deviant, Idris Olanrewaju Okunneye, also known as Bobrisky, has been in the news in the last two weeks. Apart from…

Flying gods, Lying Prophets And power Bandit In May, 1891, James Richard Jewett of Brown University, Providence, United States, presented a paper on ‘Arabic Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases’ to the…

The Unending Structural Frailties Of The Labour Party (LP By Mike Ikhariale The structural frailties that have trailed the Labour Party (LP) since inception and up to the buildup to…