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By Bola BOLAWOLE [email protected] 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 At a point I was in a quandary on how to address Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. What unfolded at the Lagos State House of Assembly presented a dilemma similar to that which confronted journalists after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won free…
March 8, 2025
By Johnson Babalola Many have written about this topic from different perspectives but with the same message—a woman’s body, including her hair, is her personal space, and touching it without consent is a violation. Some of the writers on this topic include Emma Dabiri (Don't Touch My Hair), Mpho Tutu van Furth (Forgiveness and Reparation),…
March 7, 2025
By Johnson Babalola Recently, after using my credit card at a store, I couldn’t find it upon returning to my car. Panicked, I retraced my steps, searching every section of the shop and even unusual places. I questioned the staff, but no one had seen it. Frustrated by the wasted time and effort, I resigned…
March 3, 2025
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE [email protected] 0705 263 1058 Although I love watching football, I am not a football fanatic. Each time I sit before the television, it is almost always going to be to watch one football match or the other. I don’t like watching movies. They seem to me a world of make-believe and illusion.…
March 3, 2025
Organised crime in Nigeria is like a tap root with its grip firm and difficult to detach, all thanks to systemic weaknesses and institutional failures. This crime epidemic is not just a statistic, but a harsh reality that affects Nigerians daily. Most citizens agree on three fundamental issues regarding crime in Nigeria: the high success…
March 3, 2025
By Johnson Babalola Recently, after using my credit card at a store, I couldn’t find it upon returning to my car. Panicked, I retraced my steps, searching every section of the shop and even unusual places. I questioned the staff, but no one had seen it. Frustrated by the wasted time and effort, I resigned…
March 3, 2025
By Oma Djebah If you were a peripatetic journalist or an itinerant political reporter in 1991, there is the likelihood that you would have encountered Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, elder-statesman, Senator, former minister of Information, nationalist, erstwhile Commissioner for Education, and later Finance in the old Midwest region, PANDEF leader, and above all, leader of…
March 3, 2025
BY FUNKE EGBEMODE I caught a friend adding oil from a small bottle and water from another smaller bottle to her mouth-watering pot of ogbono soup. My first thought was: caught you, girl, so these are your secret ingredients. But she looked at me strangely and told me the soup was for her husband. She…
March 1, 2025
BY FAROOQ A. KPEROGI The autobiography of former self-styled “President” Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-serving mendacity, moral spinelessness, maddening insensitivity, self-glorification, and cowardly posthumous smears of dead colleagues. I won’t revisit those points here. As someone who has a scholarly interest in—and is working on a book on—the rhetoric of…
March 1, 2025
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By Bola BOLAWOLE [email protected] 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 At a point I was in a quandary on how to address Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. What unfolded at the Lagos State House of Assembly presented a dilemma similar to that which confronted journalists after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won free…
March 8, 2025
By Johnson Babalola Many have written about this topic from different perspectives but with the same message—a woman’s body, including her hair, is her personal space, and touching it without consent is a violation. Some of the writers on this topic include Emma Dabiri (Don't Touch My Hair), Mpho Tutu van Furth (Forgiveness and Reparation),…
March 7, 2025
By Johnson Babalola Recently, after using my credit card at a store, I couldn’t find it upon returning to my car. Panicked, I retraced my steps, searching every section of the shop and even unusual places. I questioned the staff, but no one had seen it. Frustrated by the wasted time and effort, I resigned…
March 3, 2025
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE [email protected] 0705 263 1058 Although I love watching football, I am not a football fanatic. Each time I sit before the television, it is almost always going to be to watch one football match or the other. I don’t like watching movies. They seem to me a world of make-believe and illusion.…
March 3, 2025
Organised crime in Nigeria is like a tap root with its grip firm and difficult to detach, all thanks to systemic weaknesses and institutional failures. This crime epidemic is not just a statistic, but a harsh reality that affects Nigerians daily. Most citizens agree on three fundamental issues regarding crime in Nigeria: the high success…
March 3, 2025
By Johnson Babalola Recently, after using my credit card at a store, I couldn’t find it upon returning to my car. Panicked, I retraced my steps, searching every section of the shop and even unusual places. I questioned the staff, but no one had seen it. Frustrated by the wasted time and effort, I resigned…
March 3, 2025
By Oma Djebah If you were a peripatetic journalist or an itinerant political reporter in 1991, there is the likelihood that you would have encountered Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, elder-statesman, Senator, former minister of Information, nationalist, erstwhile Commissioner for Education, and later Finance in the old Midwest region, PANDEF leader, and above all, leader of…
March 3, 2025
BY FUNKE EGBEMODE I caught a friend adding oil from a small bottle and water from another smaller bottle to her mouth-watering pot of ogbono soup. My first thought was: caught you, girl, so these are your secret ingredients. But she looked at me strangely and told me the soup was for her husband. She…
March 1, 2025
BY FAROOQ A. KPEROGI The autobiography of former self-styled “President” Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-serving mendacity, moral spinelessness, maddening insensitivity, self-glorification, and cowardly posthumous smears of dead colleagues. I won’t revisit those points here. As someone who has a scholarly interest in—and is working on a book on—the rhetoric of…
March 1, 2025
