Category: Opinion
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...
MultiChoice and the rise of Nigeria’s football fan culture
Football fanship is a means of social bonding that defies ethnic and religious divides among Nigerians. On weekends, avid football fans who profess loyalty to European...
United States’ terror attack alert and Danjuma’s prognosis.
By Kazeem Akintunde Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, is gradually becoming a ghost town for diplomats and foreign missions in the country. It is now a place...
2023: Asíwájú Tinubu and The North
By Tunde Rahman Could there have been a bette r and more appropriate platform to interact with and relate to the North than the one provided by the North itself?...
Nigeria’s political contractors at war
SATURDAY BREAKFAST with TONY OKOROJI Nigeria’s master propagandists are in the battlefield, firing hot words at each other. Something crazy is going on! Those...
Terrorism and the American Red Flag: What the state governments should do
A manual for South West governors By Adewale Adeoye A young man came to my office this morning, a newspaper vendor who is also a student. We discussed the US red...
Wike’s absolute box office
Bamidele Johnson Whichever way his spunky and protracted challenge of the Atiku-Ayu complex ends, Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State, would have tattooed...
Momodu replies Keyamo, Says “Tinubu has declined in the last few years”
By Dele Momodu I have just read Festus Keyamo’s response to my critique of the APC Manifesto of lies. I’m not surprised that all he could do was yell as...
Nigerian editors and writers as free community labourers
By Farooq Kperogi If I get a dollar for every time random Nigerians that I don’t know from a hole in the wall want me to edit stuff (entire book manuscripts,...
Top 10 Yoruba names you never guessed were arabic names
By Farooq A. Kperogi I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestication of Arabic names. There are scores of Yoruba names...
