Category: Opinion

‘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…

For Sanwo-Olu’s Lagos Tenants And Landlords Some 200 years ago, someone could whimsically deport someone from a part of this country to another. It happened to Madam Efunroye Tinubu in…

For Sanwo-Olu’s Lagos Tenants And Landlords Some 200 years ago, someone could whimsically deport someone from a part of this country to another. It happened to Madam Efunroye Tinubu in…

The Python And Tinubu-North’s Matrimony By Festus Adedayo Undoubtedly, the political matrimony between President Bola Tinubu and Northern Nigeria is at Talaq stage. Talaq is the Islamic unilateral repudiation of…