Miscellaneous

Osun: By this time on August 16

By Dotun Afolayan ​History does not merely happen; it is summoned by the friction between human agency and temporal inevitability. Across the vast tapestry of...

Osun: When words betray the throne

By Akintunde Adewoye ​Power is not just a tool to boss people around or a simple office job; it is a sacred trust. The words...

Osun election: If you ask me…

By Maxwell Ajibola ​Walk down the bustling streets of Osogbo, stop by a local market in Gbongan, or sit under a tree with farmers in...

Witchcraft and the Impurities in the African Mind

Superstition, poverty and ignorance accounts for why, many decades after many societies have progressed, the African life is still loaded with primitive passions and preliterate conditions...

Who Wants Lagos Drivers’ Licence?

What is it that causes the FRSC to spend weeks on end to process issuance and renewal of drivers’ licences?

I Bought a Book on Etiquette Today

Child worship and self advertisement among Nigerian parents are definitely on the rise while common sense and good manners are on the decline…

“Nigerian Journalists, where are your cameras?”

The sudden passing of one of the doyens of legal education and vast array of jurisprudence in Nigeria, Prof. Jadesola Akande came to me as a rude shock...

Building Nigerian, Brazilian Heritage With Architecture

‘My great-grand parents were taken to Brazil during the slave trade. Today, my family house in Brazil is Abule-Bamgbose in Bambgose Street in Salvador, Bahia. My cousins live there. Brazilians in Bahia have a religious connection with the Yoruba that is not just skin deep...’

Meeting The Needs Of Nigeria’s Re-Emerging Middle Class

It may seem that the provision of infrastructure, particularly affordable and decent housing, security of lives and property, adequate social amenities, etc., are key to satisfying the demands and tastes of the re-emerging middle–class in

A Tale Of Two Citizens: The Nigerian Unknown Woman And Mr. Governor

I urge fellow Nigerians to read the two narratives below and draw their own conclusions as to what manner of persons we have as our leaders in Nigeria...

Brig. Gen. Solomon Giwa–Amu, 1959-2008

As I write this, it’s beginning to look like nothing makes sense and would ever make sense anymore. As I write this, it’s becoming difficult every minute to make sense of what this life is all about…

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My Husband is a Land Lord in Abuja

"Papa Nkiru, agaghim ekwe nkea. Nkiru must finish her secondary school before she gets married. Nkechi got married like that, and now you want Nkiru to follow suit..."

On Business Battles…

To triumph in business today, never take it for granted that your past or what you read in books, scrolls, pamphlet and business magazines, will catapult you into the exuberance of profit maximization...

Nigeria’s Cosmic Sociocratic Movement

World-wide, the dismal failure of ideology in primitive societies,...

There is a Bo Xilai in Every Politician: The New Left Movement in China

In every politician’s wealth, “there is always an element of crime” - Honore de Balzac. Any politician, who disagrees should submit his wallet for scrutiny!

Why Are We Crying? We Are All Guilty

I am sitting at my computer, transfixed by the images on the internet of the grieving parents and relatives of the over one hundred people that died in Port Harcourt at the weekend in an aeroplane crash. And we are all responsible...

When Obasanjo Fired A Letter Bomb at Goodluck Jonathan

Nigerians forget all too quickly. Many of my countrymen and...

The Ten Mysteries of the Godhead

In all nations, at noonday, the sacred incandescent light shines on living souls. The power-seeking earth man, the avaricious seeker after vanities are dead souls and so the light, does not penetrate their dead souls, which by blood covenant they have mortgaged to the kingdom of Satan...

Presidency: The Danger of Shagarinization

It is possible to predict prophetically the future direction of the Umaru Yar’Adua government by examining Shagari’s government because both are eerily similar in their creation, nature and style…

Many Ups, Few Downs for the Nigerian Judiciary

In the past, I have had cause to praise the Nigerian judiciary for due diligence and hard work. Under normal circumstances, I am the last person you want to look up to for words of praise for any branch of government...

Nigeria: Legitimizing Terrorism and Banditry?

Many things in life defy comprehension, rationality, or basic...