By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG (Published on Monday, 14 November, 2022) We had an unusual vice chancellor in Ife in the mid to late 1980s. His name is Wande Abimbola, professor of Yoruba Religion, Language and Literature. He loved his students and his students loved him. One day, he warned a sea of protesting students […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG As political campaigns for the 2023 presidential elections gather steam, the various parties have started unveiling their programmes. They are promising to take Nigerians to the moon and back. You have to give it to the Nigerian politicians: They know how to re-say the same thing others have said in […] Read more

By SKC Ogbonnia MaTaZ ArIsInG PRESS STATEMENT–The Painful Truths About The Ekweremadu Travails. For obvious reasons, I had resisted every press inquiry on Senator Ike Ekweremadu —both local and foreign–since he was detained in the United Kingdom on the allegation of organ harvesting. The most relative reason is that our basic African norms dictate that […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG Dikwa said during Shettima’s eight years as governor of Borno state, he worked tirelessly to stop the teaching of Christian Religious Studies in primary and secondary schools. The Centre for Justice on Religious and Ethnicity In Nigeria has warned Nigerians against voting for the All Progressives Congress over the alleged anti-Christian policies of […] Read more

Basil Okoh MaTaZ ArIsInG Atiku Abubakar has paid heavily for an American Lobby Group to wangle a passage for him to visit America on a diplomatic passport to avoid the criminal charges waiting for him in the US. He is now moving around hotel lobbies with the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Mary […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG •Middle Belt people should vote candidate that’ll liberate them, protect their religion, culture, land One of the conveners of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-determination (NINAS), Prof Yusuf Turaki, has advanced reasons for the rejection by some Northern Christians of the same-faith ticket adopted by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG Just close your eyes for a minute and imagine with your mind’s eye, a community of slaves which is oblivious to the chains and shackles on them; imagine a pack of lunatics in a Mental Asylum who are living their life without a care in the world; imagine a people in a dilapidated […] Read more

By Lasisi Olagunju Monday Lines Ancient Greek and Roman authors wrote about a lost city called Helike (Helice) which suffered utter destruction in 373 BC. I remembered reading about this capital city when the American government evacuated its officials from Abuja last week and the regime of denial in Abuja asked us to ignore the […] Read more

By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG In this week’s column, I ask questions that people aren’t asking about CBN’s planned naira redesign and also address the dumb, implausible lie being peddled on Twitter that Atiku is in the US as an aide to Tambuwal to evade FBI arrest🤣 Hope Buhari Doesn’t Appear on New Naira […] Read more