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In many ways, High Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo is a great man. In many ways, too, his plebeian irascibility makes him look like a medieval proletarian who gatecrashed into modern high society and feels obliged to play Orunmila. In case you didn’t know, Orunmila is the Yoruba god of wisdom and knowledge. Read More…
Review by Olatoun Gabi-Williams Up until “A Woman Alone”, I had not read any of Bessie Head’s books. The image I carried of one of Africa’s finest writers was not of a producer of literary works but of a mixed-race woman in a black-and-white photograph. Her swarthy face would be matronly were it not for Read More…
I am not in the habit of poking my nose into affairs that don’t concern me, except that when a fart is released in one corner of the room, it will inevitably spread around in obedience to the direction of the wind. Ogun State may be comparatively small in the Nigerian community of states, but Read More…
The first country I visited outside Nigeria was the United States. We were a group and it was a business vacation. Interestingly, we eat a lot of foreign cuisines in Nigeria thanks to fast food joints and also intercontinental restaurants. But trying these foods on foreign soil is a whole new experience. On the first Read More…
In a pivotal development on the Nigerian political landscape, the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) delivered its verdict on September 6, 2023, firmly affirming President Bola Tinubu’s election victory. This landmark judgement, rendered in Abuja, Nigeria, has reverberated across the nation, underscoring its significance in the ongoing discourse surrounding the country’s democratic processes. The presidential Read More…
The removal of the fuel subsidy announced by President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023, need not have resulted in the mass misery that has further alienated Nigerians from their government, if only the plans ceremoniously rolled out by the immediate past government to provide succour for the people before the fuel subsidy was abolished, Read More…
FRANCE is a problem. In Africa, it is a man-child fighting hard to retain its feeding bottle. The United Kingdom-based Socialist Labour organised a virtual conference of Africans to discuss this and the current crises in Africa, with an emphasis on the Francophone countries. Co-ordinator Tokunbo Oke, in commenting on the theme, “The Niger Coup: Read More…
Schools will be resuming in a few weeks after the long holidays, and if this isn’t properly managed, you and even the kids can end up disorganised and exhausted even before the session commences. On one hand, parents are happy their kids will go back to school so they can rest while on the other Read More…
Your Excellencies, greetings from Citizenville. It is not fashionable that anyone from this valley of citizens would nurse the pretence of counselling you as you perch on your high pedestals all over Africa. But times have changed. This is 2023. Many of you still live in the era of England’s King James I (reigned 1603–1625), who famously Read More…
By Chido Nwakanma History in exciting colours is one of the main attractions of Courage & Character: The Definitive History of Osun State. The 460-page tome comes in an arresting coffee table format, enabling it to incorporate valuable and rich primary and secondary sources in books, articles, and letters that provide a comprehensive overview. The Read More…
