By Ayo Olukotun The passing, last Sunday, of South Africa’s iconic religious leader, liberation fighter and apostle of racial justice, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, has set in motion a torrent of accolades. Tutu will be…
Since a significant percentage of Nigerians allowed themselves to be swayed by a few evil and unreasonable men in the 2015 presidential election where they helped to select the plague called Muhammadu Buhari, my…
By Simon Kolawole This little story says a lot about Nigeria. I was driving along Opebi Road, Lagos, when the traffic lights turned red at Salvation junction. The vehicles ahead of me kept moving nonetheless….
If you watch the recent performance of Burna Boy in Paris where he was teaching the audience the lyrics of his song that says “Wahala for who nor bow for Nigeria” you will understand what…
By Yemi Adebowale Immediately Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkusu and some soldiers were killed in an ambush last Saturday in Askira Uba, Borno State, the military reported that they had responded swiftly and killed 50 of…
By Simon Kolawole As I was saying, an unliberated mind is instinctively sold to prejudice. It is a form of imprisonment. I had barely shut down my laptop after writing on ‘Yoruba Muslims and the…
By Shaka Momodu It is very tempting to just sit back and black out the daily horrors bombarding Nigeria. These include the mindless carnage and butchery of human lives, the sheer audacity of terrorists/bandits armed…
By Eddy Odivwri I was eager and excited when in 2006, fifteen years ago, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a German Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) selected me as one of the Nigerian journalists to attend the World…
By Reno Omokri Recently, I was in New York for the #HARASSBUHARI OUTOFNEWYORK protest, which was very successful. Whilst in the Big Apple however, we encountered a counter protest of pro-Buhari campaigners. I was intrigued….
By Sheyi Money THE founding fathers of the four regions of Nigeria, viz. Dr Nnamdi Azikwe of the Eastern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello of the Northern Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Western Region and…
