MaTaZ ArIsInG • AUGUST 31, 2021 A lawmaker said the bill will bring peace and encourage agriculture practices in the state. Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Tuesday signed the Anti-Grazing Bill passed by the Ondo State House of Assembly into law. The State House of Assembly had in July passed the bill to ban […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG President Muhammadu Buhari has been told to tackle the current insecurity situations in the country by going after indentified sponsors of insurgency. A group, Egbe Omo Yoruba North America (EOYNA), made the call on Tuesday, asking the president to go after those identified by Commodore Kunle Olawunmi(Retd) during a live programme on a […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, pointedly declared that Nigeria is fast moving into the precipice, calling on the Federal Government to urgently put a halt to various acts of terrorism, kidnapping, herders/farmers clashes and the like currently ravaging the country. This was just as the group again reiterated its position that restructuring […] Read more
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In this week’s Saturday Tribune/Peoples Gazette column, I argue that the attack on NDA mirrors the dysfunction in Aso Rock, which was also breached in May this year. I also point to the increasing Sharia-defying “southernization” of the weddings of the children of elite northerners and its implication for Nigerian […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published on MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 30 August, 2021) Scary! One spring night, the pilot of a small plane experienced a complete engine failure. On top of that, he lost his electrical system, and with it, the use of his radio and navigation instruments. Mist filled the sky. The moon had not […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Unknown gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked a branch of Living Faith Church Worldwide at Osara community, along Lokoja-Okene road in Adavi Local Government Council of Kogi State. MaTaZ ArIsInG gathered that the kidnappers, who invaded the church premises when some of its members were rehearsing during the weekend, abducted at least […] Read more
By Farooq Kperogi I really didn’t want to comment on Femi Fani-Kayode’s viral communicative primitivism toward Daily Trust’s Calabar correspondent by the name of Eyo Charles because of my knowledge of the state of Fani-Kayode’s mental health, but I’ve read senior Nigerian journalists on social media rail against the Daily Trust reporter for asking a […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG This Interview with US based activist Stephen Enada explains why killings in Nigeria won’t subside soon The title of the report by your organisation, International Committee on Nigeria and the International Organisation for Peace Building and Social Justice (PSJ), published on the killings in Nigeria was ‘Silent Slaughter’. Will you still describe the […] Read more
By Tope Akinnola While we await the DSS to invite Professor Kunle Olawunmi, a former Navy Commodore, for interrogation, or maybe investigation, for his audacious claims that current governors, senators and certain Aso Rock officials currently in government are Boko Haram and terrorism sponsors, we already know that his claims are in tangent with what […] Read more
By Basil Okoh MaTaZ ArIsInG Nigerians are counting with hopeful optimism, the days to the end of Buhari’s tenure at Aso Villa in 2023, believing that come that year and the day May 29 2023, Buhari will hand the Presidency over to another, who everybody hopes will be a more humane manager to run the […] Read more
