By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Number 10, Downing Street has been home to Britain’s prime ministers since 1735 AD. Why would a hugely popular new prime minister move into a 289-year-old mansion without spending good pounds on it to buff it up to today’s taste? Keir Starmer, the new British prime minister, moved into […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas My Saturday Tribune column on former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello, one of the most detestable governors that ever ruled any state in Nigeria, who is fluttering from the EFCC like a frightened little chicken. Yahaya Bello’s EFCC ComeuppanceBy Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi I am not from Kogi […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas On October 29, 1974, the Nigerian Ministry of Defence, through the Ministry of External Affairs, wrote to Nigerian missions and embassies abroad that it wanted to buy tonnes of cement to build barracks for its post-civil war armed forces of 200,000 officers and men. The Nigerian Army had just […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInGTexas Sports, especially football, have opiatic effects on Nigerians. I call it kinetic booze. The ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) football competition has been remarkable in numbing the people’s terrible pain and pangs of hunger. Since this thing started, morbid fears of violent death and of mass abduction get forgotten […] Read more
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE MaTaZ ArIsInGTexas A new twist was introduced into the Ibadan explosion of 16 January, 2024 by the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM) when it alleged that the explosion was not caused by any errant legal or illegal miner, be it Malian or Nigerian, but that it was a failed assassination attempt on the […] Read more
By Basil Okoh MaTaZ ArIsInGTexas (The child keeps boasting that the fowl belongs to him. He will soon know on the day the animal is killed, who truly owns the fowl by the way the meat is shared – Agbor wisecrack) The Muslim norths political ambition has been constant and not changed since after the […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInGTexas Mr Youssouf Sawane, a Malian money-maker, leads miners from Mali in Oyo State. He was asked by the Nigerian Tribune how much his group was paying into the coffers of the Oyo State government. He answered that he owed the Oyo State government nothing; his business was with the Federal […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGTexas In the heart of West Africa, Nigeria stands as a nation of great potential, blessed with abundant resources and a resilient population. Yet, amidst the promise and potential, a shadow has loomed for decades – the scourge of corruption. Recent events have once again brought this issue to the forefront with the suspension […] Read more
By Olufemi Fadahunsi MaTaZ ArIsInGTexas On the 3rd of October 2020, men of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) shot and killed a young man in Ughelli, Delta State. Since then, there has been a spate of reprisal attacks against men of the Nigerian police unit, as seen in videos released on Twitter. The shooting […] Read more
By Bola Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInGTexas An authority on African History and leader of the Yoruba Nation Self-Determination Group, Prof. Banji Akintoye, mounts the rostrum here today to reply (in an abridged form because of space constraint) to the Oba of Benin; read on: “On November 26, 2023, the Oba of Benin ignited a huge controversy […] Read more