By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 10 January, 2022) Once upon a time, I got a book gift from Charly Boy. Like many in my generation, I love books, especially unusual ones. And that precisely was what I got from the son of Justice Chukwudifu Oputa. The title of the book? ‘My […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG Interesting and thought provoking piece – enjoy.. By Alhaja Mrs. Medinat Oladimeji AOKOYA Deputy Women Leader, Lagos State The problem with some Marxists and human rights activists is that they fail to understand their own history. They speak on pages of newspapers but are far from the tough and deadly challenges of the […] Read more

BY TUNDE AJIBOYE Although Ibadan was founded in the 16th Century, the Yoruba people only took control of the territory around 1820 with Bale Maye Akinade as the first king. By 1850 they had established their unusual succession principle which is uniquely different from other chieftaincy ascension process in the entire South Western region of […] Read more

By Chidi Odinkalu NIGERIA’S JUDICIARY APPEARS DEEP IN THE THROES OF BEING RESHAPED AS AN ESTATE DEFINED BY FILIAL AND GENITAL RELATIONS TO FACILITATE TRANSACTIONS FOR POLITICAL POWER. THIS IS CALLED JUDICIAL CAPTURE. AS JUDGES NOW HAVE THE CASTING VOTE IN NIGERIA’S ELECTIONS, AMBITIOUS POLITICIANS HAVE DECIDED THEY MUST OWN THE JUDGES. 2021 ended on […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye Every end leads to a new beginning which itself contains the seeds of another end. The continuum of life is riddled with ends and beginnings. Depending on where our paths cross or where our sensibilities are rattled or some momentous occurrence jolts us out of our accustomed lethargy, a beginning or end […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG Except a sudden change in tradition of kingship of Ibadanland , a former lawmaker, Senator Lekan Balogun, will be next in line to succeed the departed Olubadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, according to the laid down hierarchy of ascension the Ibadan throne. Senator Lekan Balogun who until the death of Oba Adetunji was the […] Read more

By Ade King Ebimomi And so I took a drive down to the fire-ravaged Next Cash & Carry in Abuja yesterday evening Dec 26, 2021. And I got another confirmation that inefficiency and lax attitude to work isn’t the exclusive preserve of the Nigerian Civil Service. A few months back, just immediately after the conflagration […] Read more

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu As far as judicial cuts go, it is difficult to find any more unkind or less supreme than in Nigeria. No one wants to invest in a country in which judges lack the capacity for indignation over credible charges of judicial corruption. This is why Nigeria bleeds investments, and even those […] Read more

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 27 December, 2021) Proverbs are not just the palm oil with which yam is eaten; they are the yam. Where I come from, there are a million proverbs for every experience of life. Some people are contagiously sick but they hate being told so. They suffer self-deception, […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) “Jingle bombs, jingle bombs, jingle all the way”, is the song of death terrorists are singing all over Nigeria, particularly in the North. This is one weary Christmas season that won’t be considered merry in many homes.  The terrorists got so bold they fired missiles around Maiduguri hours before President Buhari’s […] Read more