By Farooq Kperogi This unidentified IPOB activist stepping on the Nigerian flag while robed in the colors of the Biafran flag is being falsely called Peter Obi’s son by people who resent Obi’s rising national visibility and potential disruption of the certainties of next year’s presidential election. But even if he were Obi’s son (he […] Read more
By Dele Sobowale “If I served God as diligently as I have served the King [Henry VIII], he would not have given me over [betrayed me] in my grey hairs! This is my just reward” – Cardinal Woolsey, 1475-1530. Like Cardinal Woolsey, who served King Henry V111 as his long term closest subordinate, faithfully, made […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye Our friends, Tamuno, Dike and Hadi are exercising their right to freedom of speech: Tamuno: By now, Buhari should have visited Owo to commiserate with the people over the killings. Dike: He should have visited Anambra and Imo for the same reason too. Hadi: He can’t be everywhere. The VP already visited Owo Tamuno: If he […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Hit-and-run accident victim Omotola Akinsanya, 31, was said to have begged her relations to take her away from Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), where she was receiving treatment. Perhaps, she feared that she would die if she remained there. Sadly, she died at the hospital on June 9, which raised serious questions […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 27 June, 2022) When politicians tell big lies and then dare exasperated wailing wailers to go to court, they know what they are saying. The courts are dead. Anyone, today, can tell who will never lose a case in Nigeria whatever offence they commit. A virtual […] Read more
Inside Stuff With MARTINS OLOJA At this time of scarcity of almost everything including scarcity of integrity, paucity of high moral standard, absence of strict regulators, shortage of good service providers, poverty of philosopher-kings, dearth of good writing, lack of good judgments, rarity of good men and women, scantiness of good husbands and wives, even […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye Imagine reducing a human being— a political leader carrying the hopes and aspirations of millions of people… imagine reducing that person to just one tooth! One tooth — that’s all that remains to show that Patrice Émery Lumumba, a pan-Africanist and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo, ever trod this […] Read more
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi Yesterday, misleading news reports led me to prematurely celebrate Ahmed Lawan’s putative rejection by INEC. In this column, I show that INEC is actually in bed with APC and is the gravest danger to democracy. Facts on the ground show it can’t be trusted to conduct a free & fair […] Read more
By Leke Akinrowo Ayo Dada – Contributor “I just departed for Egypt on a 3-day visit as part of my detailed study of comparable countries to Nigeria. In Egypt, I am expected to understudy, among others, the Egyptian Power Sector…,” Mr. Obi said. This was the tweet that got Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for […] Read more
By Ayo Dada MaTaZ ArIsInG The next phase of the Fulanization and the Islamization agenda of the Fulani jihadists has been kickstarted if one is to go by the press briefing of the police officer, it seems. Indigenous Nigeria under the government of President Buhari have been under incessant and relentless attacks from terrorists and […] Read more
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