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...

Begging For The Life Of Your Twins

In today's Nigeria, twin children are very attractive and somewhat celebrated. The parents of these children usually get some kind of support from neighbours and friends particularly when it seems that it is mostly the abjectly poor that often have twins...

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The lack of drinking water and dangers of water boreholes

The cost and damage brought by drinking of parasite infected water with its borne diseases are very high, which mostly affect new born babies and children. This is a major contributory to the abysmal high infant mortality rate in Africa and Nigeria...

What Future?

Are the current leaders the best foot we can put forward? Is any willing to get off the fence and out of their comfort zones? Can this generation make changes to Nigerian political schematics?

Open letter to Alhaji Sani Yerima

It is perhaps right to state that the last has not been heard about your unceremonious marriage to a minor and the consequent barrage of public criticism it generated. June 15, 2010 is your next date with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic Persons...

We Will Get There

The most popular definition of democracy was given by...

Their Secret Plan

On TV, young people who ought to be in school are being paraded as crime suspects… Meanwhile, the children of our leaders are seen in society magazines at graduation ceremonies in American and British universities…

Shall We Tell The President?

I borrowed this title from the British thriller writer,...

Re: BBA: Debasing Self For A Fee

Shame and condemnation to Ofunneka, to her parents, to Nigerian federal and state governments, including Nigerian legislators, all Nigerian mothers who kept silent...

How Will Jesus Vote?

When confronted with the alternatives, will Jesus vote for the party that supports some limited form of gay marriage or the one that opposes it, yet have its upper echelons of leadership enmeshed in one homosexual relationship or the other?

Omoluwabi: Igniting Yoruba Lost Values (2)

Omoluwabi is the deodorized and comforting cultural renaissance being courageously embraced by Yoruba men and women of ideas as a conduit of heritage renewal among a brave and valorous race of people currently torn apart...

Nigeria Deserves UN Security Seat: Reasons, Facts and Positive Contributions!

This heavyweight status puts Nigeria in a natural leadership role, one that both its democratically elected and military leaders have embraced since gaining independence from Britain in 1960...