Afolabi: Ode to community value
W ant to gauge your community value? Fix your birthday on a Monday morning; and see how many people would turn up. Well, anyone of high community value would dare no such hubris. Yet, that was what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Between IBB and Atiku
“May your road be rough, may you have a hard time this year” – Tai Solarin (of blessed memory), 1 January 1964 In this season of emergency messiahs, it is meet to x-ray that Nigerian penchant to chase...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Again, Baba Iyabo thunders
Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of the Federal Republic, has thundered yet again! But it is nothing but jaded deja vu. Those swooning over Obasanjo’s latest Coalition for Nigeria (CN), would do...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The media and road to Kigali
When the Rwanda madness boiled over, a local radio it was that directed the grim orgy of point-and-kill. Here, “point-and-kill” is leisure lingo for local pepper soup gourmets. But the Kigali party...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beyond outrage
Good old outrage is alive — and the nationwide uproar, over the Fulani herdsmen Benue killing, is proof. What routinized sleaze had numbed, shocking gore just woke — and just as well! A nation, in...
View ArticleStraight-and-narrow
Nigeria perpetually treads the wide and merry way, which the bible says, leads to destruction. The result is the present sorry state, which everyone hates. But each time it makes for the...
View ArticleTisa, no teach me nonsense
In periods of national foibles, the immortal lyrics of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, himself the Abami Eda (strange creature), comes to mind. In one of his vintage numbers, he was at his irreverent best:...
View ArticleMedia under-developing Nigerian politics?
Remember Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, that seminal work first published in 1972, which audacious thinking set the academia on fire? In the Nigerian university campus of the 1980s,...
View ArticleGood product, bad pitch
Good product, bad pitch — that, in marketing terms, about captures the current “restructuring campaign”, to correct the anomaly of Nigeria’s “unitary federalism”. Sure, other things being equal,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BudgIT and stats for stats’ sake
BudgIT’s dire verdict, on states and their debts, made sensational headlines. But it was hinged on two suspect premises. One, the delegitimization, if not criminalization, of debts. That premise is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gani and the curse of Aole
Gani Adams’ thirst for the controversial Aare Ona Kakanfo title, is clearly a push for self-actualization, after attaining the basics of life. But given the jinx that comes with the deal, a yearn for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CAN of cant
CAN, the Christian Association of Nigeria, could easily have played Immanuel Kant, pushing the tenets of the faith as Cthe categorical imperative for salvation. But instead, CAN has embraced cant. By...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ajasin legend
Twenty years ago, Michael Adekunle Ajasin (1908-1997) died. Twenty years later, a yearly conference, in his name, has debuted; to be alternated between the University of Ibadan (UI) and Adekunle Ajasin...
View ArticleOctober 1
At 57, this year’s October 1, National Day 2017, was fated to enter and exit with minimum fuss. Nigeria’s Golden Jubilee (though without much gold to show) was seven years past. The Diamond Jubilee...
View ArticleOsogbo rendezvous
September 15, and a galaxy of stellar minds, gathered at Osogbo, the Osun capital, to discuss the Nigerian condition. The prism was sharp — whither the South West, Nigeria’s perennial opposition since...
View ArticleBiafra 2: way to Bathos
Between Biafra 1 (1967-1970) and the ongoing attempts at Biafra 2, Karl Marx howls: history repeats itself, first as tragedy; then as farce. Biafra 2 appears a tragic farce, built on ”Igbo...
View ArticleMidterm: challenges, opportunities
It’s mid-term, with its burst and buzz of politics; and its cacophony of desires. The 2019 round of elections loom. So do the 2018 dress rehearsals: the Ekiti and Osun gubernatorial polls. Former Vice...
View ArticleNeither settled nor hopeless
As a shock therapy, you can hardly fault President Muhammadu Buhari’s homecoming broadcast of August 21. As granite as they come, it halted, at least for now, the free descent of free speech into...
View ArticleSeason of hysteria
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity — W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” This week’s is no ode to aphorisms. But even this famous opener, by Irish poet Yeats,...
View ArticleNigeria — ever ripe for anything?
The ripest fruit was saddest,” crowed the rebellious “Abiku”, in Wole Soyinka’s version of that poem; even as the plaintive parent’s plea, of J.P. Clark’s version, melted the heart. With a casual...
View Article![BLACKPINK – DEADLINE – EP [iTunes Plus M4A]](http://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video211/v4/de/b3/b1/deb3b1d4-ba28-22e8-2428-ef97617b2a4b/90d54d743002a6d66308f217cd867947_Preview_Image_Intermediate_nonvideo_sdr_426725135_2574858051.png/316x316bb.webp)
