Supremacy is supreme
DOES superiority necessarily mean the same thing as supremacy? This is the thought-provoking question prompted by President Muhammadu Buhari’s word choice when he addressed members of the National...
View ArticleHello homo
FOR those who insist on the exaggerated idea that the recent pro-homosexuality decision by the United States Supreme Court possibly marks the beginning of the end for mankind, it must be said that the...
View ArticleBe your beggars’ keeper
Beggars are expected to beg, aren’t they? Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai should by now understand that a government ban on street begging cannot make sense to beggars. Following the July 7...
View ArticlePositive terrorism
OF all the arguments to redeem the image of the Nigerian military as it battles unimpressively and unconvincingly against terrorism, the most mystifying must be the illogic that blames media treatment...
View ArticleObituary of confusion
It looked like denialism, culturally endorsed and encouraged. Media reports that said Oba Okunade Sijuade, the Ooni of Ife since 1980 and a pre-eminent Yoruba monarch, was dead sounded like nonsense...
View ArticleWhen silence is a minus
What may explain why two striking cultural reasons for celebration at this time have not been exploited for publicity and tourism-related purposes, particularly by the Osun State government, the...
View ArticleAngel Ameyo
This week marks the first anniversary of a touching death. Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh lost her life on August 19, 2014, in heroic circumstances. This piece, first published on September 15, 2014, is...
View ArticleFashola: Aftergame or endgame?
Speculators may be correct about the existence of a wall in between two former governors of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Mr. Babatunde Fashola. But the specifications of the wall may well be...
View ArticleBad PR for Oduduwa
Some of the things said and done on Oduduwa’s platform injure the reputation of the Yoruba ancestral father figure. Also abbreviated as Odudua or Oòdua, his name continues to suffer as a result of...
View ArticleBurden of blessing
When the filthy rich do not enrich the filthy poor, they make themselves filthy and impoverished. It cannot be enough to enrich the imagination of the poor by a display of the possibilities of...
View ArticleLagos-Ibadan Expressway: The road ahead
As a metaphor for the journey of life, the road is both interesting and intriguing. Two notable writers were fascinated enough to focus on the road: Nigerian Nobelist Wole Soyinka created a 1965 drama...
View ArticleAttractions made unattractive
CERTAIN things about the past speak to the present in the presence of the future. Such is the case with the September 2 news of the dating of an 11, 000-year old moat at Sugbon Eredo in Oke Eri. Prof....
View ArticleUnderstanding Saraki’s misunderstandings
When understanding collides with misunderstanding, the collision needs to be understood. Is Senate President Bukola Saraki misunderstood? In other words, is he a victim of misunderstanding? Or is he...
View ArticleNo winner, no money
When writers don’t get it right, they get it wrong. Apart from a failure of craft and art, it was a poor outing for 109 writers who had their eyes on the 2015 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL)...
View ArticleGentlemen can’t conquer corruption
When official corruption becomes fashionable, that is a corruption of fashion. It is a fashion that should be made unfashionable. Corruption-related news here and there not only illustrates the fashion...
View ArticleUncultured power corrupts culture
By his intense intervention in the controversy relating to control of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), Osogbo, the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola,...
View ArticleA dishonour to Crowther at home
It is two years since the Bishop Ajayi Crowther Diocese in Iseyin, Oyo State, organised a fundraiser on October 26, 2013, for the completion of a new church building for the Bishop Ajayi Crowther...
View ArticleDele Giwa rolling in his grave
When an investigator sounds like he needs to be investigated, it calls into question the integrity of his investigation. Chris Omeben, a former Deputy Inspector-General of Police who investigated the...
View ArticleA for Autism
There is only one reason my wife isn’t here,” the celebrator said. It was his 70th birthday. Before this pregnant utterance, I had wondered whether his wife was at the event at MUSON Centre, Lagos, in...
View ArticleLagos-Ibadan Expressway: The Fashola factor
Like a winding way, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway presents twists and turns. Another development has further complicated the ongoing reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and reinforced earlier...
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