Category: Opinion

*Obi in Lagos? A Cultural Misstep*

  By Idowu Ephraim Faleye Kingship is not something anyone wakes up and claims. It is not like politics where anybody can contest, campaign, or declare ambition....

A visit to the Olunloyo’s at Ibadan…

  By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpit@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The Olunloyo family of Ibadan needs no elaborate introduction. Who does not know Dr. Victor Omololu Sowemimo...

The Resurgence of the Supremacy Challenge Between the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ and the Ọọni of Ifẹ̀: The Source and The Sword

  By Adéṣẹ́gun Ọṣìbánjọ |     The Origins of the Yorùbá and the Two Thrones The Yorùbá nation is one of the world’s oldest continuous...

*Terrorism, Kidnapping, and Weak Laws: A Call for Lawmakers to Do Their Real Job*

  By Idowu Ephraim Faleye   Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Terrorist  Mahmud Usman   When Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja...

*The Battle to Break Tinubu Is a Battle to Break Nigeria*

*The Battle to Break Tinubu Is a Battle to Break Nigeria* By Idowu Ephraim Faleye Let’s not pretend anymore—there’s a powerful undercurrent in Nigeria’s...

Corruption: Are we really looking in the right direction

Corruption: Are we really looking in the right direction? By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 “Two traditional rulers and their Oloris, not Fulani...

The north's tadpoles and Deborah Yakubu

On El-Rufai, Aláròká and terrorists

Olagunju By Lasisi Olagunju   Why did Bola Tinubu offend Nasir El-Rufai? He should have kept him. There are three principalities the Yoruba dread to offend: The...

Justice for Evangelist Mba

Justice for Evangelist Mba “One life taken in cold blood is as gruesome as a thousand others that may go down in genocide” In 1981 during an international...

The bond between President Tinubu and VP Shettima

  By Tunde Rahman Long before President Bola Tinubu decided on Vice President Kashim Shettima, who turned 59 last week, as his running mate in the last presidential...

Media and the New Nigeria of Our Dreams

  The Nigerian media has always been more than a chronicler of events. It has been a weapon, a shield, and a voice. Our struggle for independence was not only...