Category: Opinion
2023 and the ugly foretold
– By Bruce Malogo Twenty-twenty-three election is four months away. Already, ugly has begun to show its hand – in violence. It is typical. Elections in Nigeria...
The importance of standardising presidential debate
By Temitope Ajayi In the last 22 years of Nigeria’s democratic experience, it has become a norm for major newspapers, radio and television stations, religious...
A case for Yoruba unity
By Lasisi Olagunju I want to write about the civil war in Egbe Afenifere, then I remember what happened to the lame orphan who thought he could be the...
Buhari’s rabid personalisation of power
By Bolanle Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Mother, mother/Why/Why was I born Black? – Okot p’Bitek in “Song of Lawino” As I woke up on Friday...
Abia 2023 and the Otti challenge
Years ago, Singapore lost its leader, Lee Kuan Yew, the man credited to its transformation from under-development to a developed economy. Yew was a patriotic,...
2023: Who are the Yoruba leaders
By Adewale Adeoye I dont know if there is division in Afenifere. There seems to be. But there is no division in Yorubaland. What exists is diversity of issues and...
In Yorubaland, a king is not buried alive
Dare Babarinsa Afenifere is in the news again for its own sake. What has triggered the latest soul-searching for the pan-Yoruba political and cultural...
The Igbo insularity and it’s Yoruba wahala.
By Chimaroke Nnamani. How did the Igbo get to this ? Who sold this massive Con job ? Who are the snake oil Salesmen ? Why the perceived mistrust of the Yoruba ?...
Afenifere: Tinubu, Adebanjo and the gathering storm
By Tunde Abatan Since it’s formation in Owo,a town in Ondo state in 1952 by Yoruba leaders as the Yoruba socio cultural group to seek welfare of all Yoruba...
Life and times of Fela
By Lindsay Barret When #Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died in August 1997, Nigeria lost one of its most controversial and inspirational cultural figures. Here, the...
