By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 11 April, 2022) Are we being ruled by coincidences or by conspiracies? There was a British passenger liner, the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic. It was a ship of luxury boasts that was built to sail forever; but it sank in the night of 14-15 April, […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju August 14, 2021; 11:00pm Leader of the ‘unseen’ persons ruling us, Alhaji Mamman Daura, spoke last week. He said enough of turn-by-turn presidency for Nigeria. He decreed that North-South rotation of the presidency of Nigeria should be dead; from 2023, the most competent among contenders would be put in the Presidential Villa. […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Governor Zulum demolishes 6 decades old church in Borno State It is no longer news that Governor Babagana Umara Zulum continues to show his disdain and total hatred for the Christian Community in Borno State. Under his directives, a church was demolished and an innocent person (Ezekiel) killed in cold blood on the […] Read more
By Farooq Kperogi Someone sent me this memo that the Apo Legislators’ Quarters Central Mosque Committee sent to the intrepid Sheikh Nuru Khalid informing him of the termination of his appointment as Imam of the Apo Juma’at Mosque for telling truth to power. The person who shared it with me was at once bemused and […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 4 April, 2022) A nation goes irretrievably bad when bad things happen and the powerful decree against mentioning or discussing them, or, even, accepting that they are happening at all. Every worthy news manager in Nigeria today is very familiar with the strains and stresses […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye Her name is Chinelo Megafu. She graduated in Dentistry from the University of Port-Harcourt in 2015. Ah, you already know her? She had never been one to seek cheap popularity. Her becoming a household name was entirely beyond her control. As a medic, she was trained to save lives. Nothing prepared her […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 28 March, 2022) I saw two bearded, bitter members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Channels TV late last week lamenting. They said ex-PDP leaders were taking over the house they built. They fretted and lamented what was about to happen to their tendency […] Read more
By ‘Tope Fasua I am afraid. I am afraid. I knew there was always a possibility that I would be left holding the can with my bet that Nigeria was the country to be in and that we should stay here and make the most of our country. I have always had a fear that […] Read more
At the risk of sounding like a broken record or an alarmist, the need for a TRANSFORMATIONAL leadership has become absolutely necessary if Nigeria must come out of this quagmire. This is because transformational leaders have the Midas touch to tackle these worrisome issues using systemic approaches to local solutions, which require intimate and empathetic […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published on MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 21 March, 2022) With women, there is never an end to a war- any war in which their core interest is involved. When they win, they sip choice wines with the skull of the enemy. When they lose, they, in bitterness, weep, withdraw and go underground […] Read more
