Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide, Minister of Education in the First Republic, under Tafawa Balewa, and Minister of Justice under Alhaji Shehu Shagari,...

Prince Adekunle, the Yoruba Juju music maestro of the 1970s, once sang that a tree which falls in the forest...

As I write this, I am listening to a line of the song of my favourite Jamaican reggae music superstar,...

In Nigeria, on Tuesday and Thursday last week, two precision airstrikes hit targets. As similar as the pains the airstrikes brought,...

As we walked into the venue of Professor Abimbola Adunni Adelakun’s mother’s 25th memorial in Ibadan, Oyo State, last Thursday,...

Time and seasons have their indicators. My people have many of such indicators. For instance, when elders gather to feast...

Today’s Gen Z world may not know of “Eddie Kwansa”. It is a famous folk song Owerri, Imo State, donated to the rest of Nigeria. Released...

Famous Ogbomoso, Oyo State-born bard, Ogundare Fọyanmu, had some words for evil spins and spinners. Religionists call these spinners “workers of iniquity”. They are...

President Bola Tinubu did the unexpected last Wednesday. He attended the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) Conference 2025. It was...

Greek philosopher, Socrates, may be the most famous Western figure of his time to have swallowed the poisonous plant's juice called hemlock....

I have read enough works on the phenomenon of sycophancy in politics to know that it is a democratic curse. Whenever I reflect...

Today, Nigerian leaders are busy playing the biblical couple, Ananias and Sapphira, on allegation that they abet genocide in Nigeria....

Professor Joash Amupitan. While growing up, I went on hunting expeditions with elderly men. From there, I found out that the...

Words are sacred sovereign objects. This sacredness makes them very essential to democratic freedom. In his poem, The Word Is...

The earliest example of personal rule gone awry in the world was given in the biblical account of Eli, the...

President Bola Tinubu, on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State at coronation of his friend and political ally, Oba Abdul-Rashidi Adewolu...

Wike, Tinubu and Fubara Three Nigerian “witches” just got beaten by a midnight downpour. They are, Siminalayi Fubara, Nyesom Wike...

Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Poor Goodluck Ebele Jonathan! Last Thursday, at the 70th birthday of his ex-Chief of Staff, Chief Mike Aiyegbeni Oghiadomhe, in...

Growing up, people of my generation matured into a fiery imagery painted of the wild and the animal world. We...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu A few weeks ago, an outburst of then aspirant for Nigeria’s presidential office, Bola Ahmed Tinubu,...

When the weight of words spoken is weightier than whatever response it may attract, my people say Oro p’esi je. The...

At the risk of being labeled thanatophobic -  a preoccupation with death or its anxiety - the grim reality is...

There was territorial tension in Nigeria last week. Like in the famous fable where animals gathered in the forest to...

Praise and dispraise are two usages for which the tongue of a Nigerian politician can be put. This is a...

Late Oba Sikiru Adetona - Ogbagba II “Why should I bother myself with what is done to my body when...