For Yoruba Muslims And Pentecostals
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 Offsprings
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 Bandits
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)
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…
Can I Tell Our First Lady That Graduates Drive Cabs Here, Too?
My people have different social stratifications. One of them is a group of people they call olórí àpésín. That simply means those who chose destiny that makes people worship them.…
Odi, Zaki Biam And Okuama: Beyond Sentiments
Soldiers voluntarily elected to die the very day they signed up for Military work. They signed up to die at the hands of the enemies. It is a grave abnormality…
APC And Lesson From Last Child Of Tortoise
If I were President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I would choose to answer the name of the sixth child of the Tortoise. According to the folklore, after the first five children…
Where Are Yoruba’s Soldier Ants?
There was a man called Ofinaboorun. That is a deep Ekiti name. Meanings are lost in interpretations. So, you may not get the real meaning of the name here. But…
The Darkness Called Nigeria
If you have not seen the one-minute-30 seconds video of Lagosians scrambling for rice at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) facility, you must have read the news about the stampede…
The Ibadan Protest Against Hardship
An Ibadan man accompanied his wife and daughter to the market in search of salt to add to their tasteless pot of soup. That was in March 1881, when the…