Category: Opinion
The restless children of Oranmiyan by Dare Babarinsa
Apart from the Palace of the Ooni, the most visited site in Ile-Ife is Opa Oranmiyan. The Oranmiyan Cenotaph is marked by a giant obelisk made of stone. It is one of the...
Atiku was born in Nigeria, by Majeed Dahiru
To proceed in this unfortunate error of impugning on Atiku’s legitimate status as a Nigerian citizen by birth will be to delegitimise the citizen status by birth...
Where are the owners of those houses?
When I wrote Visit the Mortuary in the Sunday Times early in 1974, the motive was to draw attention to the emerging decay in our national ethos brought about by the...
Atiku and tale of the INEC server
I have always wondered how Abubakar Atiku came to believe that he won an election that was monitored from polling booth to polling booth in Nigeria, by foreign...
Papering over our plight by Abiodun Komolafe
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party. A Pan Africanist par excellence, Tinubu is one leader whose...
Mass child abuse at two extremes, by ‘Tope Fasua
…the real mass child abuse that compares with the force-feeding of four year olds with sexuality, is what I see as an elite conspiracy around the mass illiteracy...
Who needs a psychiatrist?, by Margaret Uddin-Ojeahere
It is important to emphasise that seeing a psychiatrist does not necessarily mean that one is “mad”. At times people need help to cope with the challenges they...
A professor’s cure for Dangote’s headache
Sitting on a pyramid of wealth exceeding $10bn, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, shouldn’t be worried by poverty. In fact, if Dangote decides to line his path...
Awolowo, Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) and the barbarians
It has been said of Obafemi Awolowo, Western Nigeria’s first premier, that like Roman Empire’s first emperor, Augustus Caesar, he was ‘’an efficient...
When your enemy fights your battles, by Owei Lakemfa
The American foreign policy resembles a nursery school rhyme which sounds like: My enemy is your enemy. My enemy must be your enemy. My enemy shall be your enemy. If...
