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Beyond Dele Farotimi’s Travails

The travails of activist Dele Farotimi in the hands of inscrutable but entrenched principalities in Nigeria have all the potential to inflict mental and...

Don’t Cry for Dele Farotimi, Cry for Nigeria

Genuine, unpretentious patriotism is deep, very deep. It arises from an unflinching, sometimes obdurate conviction that one’s country would one day recover from anaemic,...

Davido and the Burden of Truth

Last Saturday, I attended the reunion party of the Department of English UNILAG class of 1998. It was a wonderful occasion that evoked nostalgia...

Obasanjo’s Moment of Epiphany

I met Olusegun Obasanjo for the first time in his Abeokuta home in 2017. I had gone to interview him with Prof. Hope Eghagha...

Peter Obi, Churches, and Night Vigils

Nigeria’s undisputed political sensation and Labour Party’s presidential aspirant in the 2023 elections Mr. Peter Obi continues to bestride the country’s political firmament like...

Treason: Nigeria on Trial, Minors on Trial

Wole Soyinka’s The Trial of Brother Jero and Ngugi wa Thiongo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi dramatize trial in different, compelling strata through creative...

Peter Obi, Gowon and a Country in Turmoil

Nigeria’s former military head of state Mr Yakubu Gowon recently marked his 90th birthday anniversary. Expectedly, many Nigerians felicitated him on the landmark occasion....

My Journey to Kirikiri Prison

Barrister Jubril Salami is my good friend. Our friendship started at Henry Carr Hall, University of Lagos. I cannot immediately remember how our friendship...

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