Category: Opinion

Petrol Price As Slow Poison On May 25, 2020, George Floyd of Minneapolis repeatedly pleaded for reprieve. “I can’t breathe,” he groaned while police officer, Derek Chauvin, smashed his knee…

Rivers: Beyond Wike And Fubara Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s 1947 book, ‘Path to Nigerian Freedom’, opens with three quotations. The first tells the reader: “This above all: to thine own self…

Poverty, Professors, And Policy There was a time in this country when professors earned more than federal permanent secretaries. That was before Nigeria happened to itself. A professor in 1973…

‘I Am Here To Plunder’ I always wonder why it appears difficult for President Bola Tinubu to defeat banditry in Nigeria. The president’s most popular chieftaincy title is Jagaban Borgu.…

‘Those Who Are About To Die Salute You’ From William Bascom, American folklorist and anthropologist, I got a Yoruba story. It is here retold, substantially in my own words, in…

Marriage, Yes; Education, No At 89, old age has confined Dr. Omololu Olunloyo to the wheelchair, but he remains as sharp as he was 29 years ago when I first…

Destiny And Enemies Of The State Nothing we do or say now will change Nigeria unless it turns back from its present plunge. Nothing. “No spring changes the desert. The…

In Defence Of Our President How rich is Vice President Kashim Shettima? I ask because twice last week, the big man from Borno described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Lion of…

Nigeria As Shock-Horror Skits By Festus Adedayo Skits literally crack ribs with laughter. The line separating fact from fiction or faction (fact and fiction) in skits is paper-thin. An instance…

Yoruba’s Spirit Of Resistance By Lasisi Olagunju The king in pre-colonial Oyo had power over everything. He determined who lived and who died. At a point in time, there was…