Opinion

The Abba Kyari mascot we wear on our lapel

A lot has been said and written about how a suspended deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari, arrived at this…

3 years ago

Aregbesola, political treachery and the Ijebu-Jesa sermon

  Chinua Achebe’s Tortoise folktale in his highly celebrated Things Fall Apart, among other motifs, excoriates an act of betrayal as…

3 years ago

Sofiat’s murder and our booming human body parts market

With the shock, anger, and general revulsion that followed the gruesome killing of 20-year-old Sofiat Kehinde, allegedly perpetrated by her…

3 years ago

Atiku Abubakar and the sexual history of the Nigerian presidency

In early 2014, the Zimbabwean public sphere literally caught fire. Rumours that the country’s former Prime Minister and the presidential…

3 years ago

Makinde’s beatification of thuggery

One needs no further confirmation that there is a gulf between the crisp, media projections and the messy realities of…

3 years ago

Money Ritual In Nigeria’s ‘Zazu Republic’

As of December 2021, when Habeeb Okikiola, the Zazu crooner collaborated with Olamide Adedeji (Badoo) and Poco Lee to release…

3 years ago

General Abubakar, was MKO’s death really natural?

Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, commonly known as…

3 years ago

Exit of Alao-Akala: Onerous task to fill leadership vacuum in Oyo APC

Like him or hate him, Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala was an enigma. Many things have been written and said about…

3 years ago

Why Aregbesola should look before he leaps

In life you wonder sometimes, why certain things unfold as they do. The philosophers summarize these, as mysteries. The scientists…

3 years ago

Between Tinubu and Buhari’s favoured successor

The market for 2023 politics has been declared opened by the son of Abibatu Mogaji who is also the ceremonial…

3 years ago