Yahaya Balogun

Balogun writes from Arizona.

Buying Naira With Naira: The Failure of A Leader With A Sore Legacy!

"Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with." - Jim Stengel, professor, and businessman. A brute nation, sometimes, is...

KOBJ-Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson: An Epitome of Grace, Intelligence, and Candor

According to Wikipedia, Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson is an American attorney and a quintessential jurist. She has served as a federal judge on the...

Nigeria: A Collection of Jungle Cities with nowhere to hide

"Today is a bitter reminiscent experience of yesterday; tomorrow's uncertainty is brewing in our collective hopelessness." -Yahaya Balogun This piece is sadly inspired by the...

The Loud Silence Of PYO And The Mahuru Mahuru Of BAT’s Minions!

"I am a product of gifted INSULTS. "- BAT "Hate speech is a specie of TERRORISM" - PYO Our crowd-pleasing ace Afro-Juju music maestro, Chief Sunday...

Yinka TNT: A Quintessential Pragmatist And Realist

"When you speak the truth, act reality shows, and with the audacity of reasoning, you do not have to worry about anything within the...

Late Tofa and Shonekan as Unsung Footnotes of June 12 1993!

"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." -- Calpurnia in Julius Caesar. What will you...

Let’s Pray

"Sincere prayer is a potent religious and miraculous weapon for conquering surmountable and insurmountable problems." - Yahaya Balogun O Lord of creation, please, direct our...

Happy Birthday to Omoyele Sowore at 50!

I am in the age bracket with Comrade Omoyele Sowore; a little bit older than him. Though I am not comfortable with Sowore's tactic...

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