By Bola Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG Back through the ages I go wandering once again/Back to the season of my youth/I recall the bags of rags that someone gave us/And how my mama put the rags to use… In Dolly Parton’s “Coat of many colours” There is nothing new that will not become old; even our […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines (Published on Monday, 12 December, 2022) ‘How to Rig an Election’ is one of the newest books in my library. I have all sorts of friends with a taste for weird writings. One of them, Tayo Koleoso from Saki, Oyo State, but based in the United States, bought […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG By Wole Olaoye When strange things happen repeatedly and the abnormal begins to wear the toga of normalcy, it is time to raise the alarm. Aside from informing, educating and entertaining us, the media also help society set its agenda and fulfil a much needed surveillance function to keep the society inviolate. In […] Read more
SIMON KOLAWOLE MaTaZ ArIsInG Nearly 10 years ago, my childhood friends and I bought land in the village. My thinking was that I would, once in a while, spend the weekend at the countryside to experience a different ambience away from the hustle and bustle of Lagos — my home for the past 33 years. […] Read more
By Ayo Dada Looking back at the the botched Chatham House stunt by APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, there are two take aways to add to what many critics have already written about; they are SECURITY and COMPETENCE. On Security, if he, Tinubu can confidently choose Governor Nasri El rufai to answer questions […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG For some inexplicable reason, the first thought that came to my mind when I saw the title of Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi’s memoirs, “The Road Never Forgets”, was a quick throwback to Wole Soyinka’s world-acclaimed play,“The Road”. The word, road, has had a loaded meaning for me on various metaphorical levels […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG With the 2023 general elections less than three months away, many Nigerians are in displeasure against the current administration and ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Some of the Nigerians, who spoke to DAILY POST on the streets of Abuja, made it clear that they do not have any personal issues with the APC […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines (Published on Monday, 28 November, 2022) The National Bureau of Statistics in January 2012 released its ‘Nigeria Poverty Profile 2010’ report which contained data covering the previous 30 years. It showed that 17.1 million Nigerians were in poverty in 1980; 34.7 million in 1985; 39.2 million in 1996; […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG Away from the grandiose promises of politicians in these testy times of electoral campaigns in the midst of insecurity, let’s just pause for a moment and consider how parts of our country came to look like Libya where warlords determine life expectancy. I am not aware that any of the […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG By Bolanle Bolawole As I lay me on my bed one morning reflecting on happenings around the world, with particular reference to Nigeria, I could not but recall the official flagging off of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s campaign in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, on Tuesday, […] Read more
