By Wole Olaoye We are in that season again when all sorts of salacious diagnoses are proffered to chart a way out of our national illness of underdevelopment. The impression is often given that what Nigeria needs is a superman, superimposed from above as a Deus-ex-machina device to wave the magic wand and transform the […] Read more

By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In this week’s edition of my #BlackHistoryMonth series, I show the enduring historical and sociolinguistic connection between West African Pidgin English (particularly Nigerian Pidgin English) and Black English in the United States and the Caribbean islands. My second Black History Month article dwells on the intriguing but not surprising historical […] Read more

By Michael West MaTaZ ArIsInGFebruary 12, 2022 Danger is looming!We are still praying and strategizing how to peacefully navigate the cloudy political atmosphere between now and next year but the onslaughts of Yahoo ritualists is swelling the rank of predators like Boko Haram, killer herdsmen, kidnappers, bandits and armed robbers. Yahoo ritualists are more dangerous […] Read more

By Dr. Sunny Oby Maduka. When I stated last week that H.E. Tinubu’s visit to PMB was to assure the UK government of his unalloyed loyalty. UK government wanted an assent attestation from PMB of his support for Tinubu’s ambition to be Nigeria president come 2023. Such assurance attestation will be tabled before Her Majesty […] Read more

By Dr. Sony Oby Maduka (DSM) Biafra was never conquered by the Nigerian government but by the influential manipulations of the British government with the secret connivance of a few highly placed United Nations officials and a few Biafran saboteurs. And till date, we have leaders who must pay allegiance to the Queen and British […] Read more

By Dr. Sunny Oby Maduka (DSM) I have heard in many fronts and from diverse intellectuals and opinions, especially from the ruling class that Nigeria is INDISPENSABLE. A statement that has always triggered my mind to understand how empty those in power could state certain declarations as if they’re God Almighty. Who amongst us could […] Read more

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 7 February, 2022) I experienced him for the first time as he was introduced as Imam Orimadegun. He was asked to preach at a Muslim burial service last Saturday in Osogbo, Osun State. He picked the microphone and announced that he was not going to preach […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG I do not know Bukola Saraki personally. I have never seen him physically and never spoken to him. The present governor of Kwara State, Abdulrahmam Abdulrasaq is a friend and has been since 1999. I did projects for him when was a private businessman since 1999. I am presently doing projects for him […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye When a society is on the inexorable path to Sodom and Gomorrah, something unbelievably bestial and savagely subhuman usually happens to shock the populace back to the path of rectitude.  We have been having so many killings all over the country that we were getting used to them. We were becoming unshockable. […] Read more

By Farooq A. Kperogi Yemi Osinbajo has stirred negative emotions in northern Muslims twice in less than a month when he wore shoes to enter a mosque and to enter the bedroom of the mother of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua. That was avoidably boneheaded cultural indiscretion. From my perspective, it seems highly unlikely […] Read more