By Farooq Kperogi I salute the courage of Joke Silva, wife of legendary actor Olu Jacobs, for publicly revealing that her husband is battling what she called “dementia with Lewy Body.” “It is a degenerative disease that affects the brain, and is almost like Parkinson’s disease,” she said. “It affects the brain and affects the […] Read more

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 22 November, 2021) There was a time in this country when one single person was acting prime minister, acting minister of finance and substantive minister of defence. How would a man perform the functions of those offices simultaneously without having an accident? It happened that during […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) When Bashorun JK Randle (scion of the illustrious Randle family of Lagos) handed over the property of his late aunt, Alhaja Munirat Muhammed, at 14A Bashorun Street, Ikoyi, to the Muslim community through the Lagos Central Mosque, many people who did not understand the symbiotic relationship between Christians and Muslims in […] Read more

By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi “Repentant” Boko Haram terrorists went on a rampage in Borno two days ago because they didn’t trust the Islamic purity of the people who slaughter the cows they eat. I predicted this turn of events last year: AFP, the French wire service, reported on November 18 that “Hundreds of Nigerian […] Read more

By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi The brutal murder–“for ritual sacrifice”–of a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University by the name of Timothy Adegoke at the Hilton Hotel and Resort near Ile-Ife reminded me of my own experience of escaping a similar ritual murder plot in 1999 in Ibadan when I went to enroll for […] Read more

By Michael West MaTaZ ArIsInG November 19, 2021 Men are dying again!While thinkers and strategic planners seem to be in the works to address the issue of increasing number of unmarried women because men are grossly in short supply, some women are sending their husbands to early grave on account of rivalry and infidelity. The […] Read more

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 15 November, 2021) In a very recent interview with The New Yorker, an American news magazine, Professor Wole Soyinka was asked to name his favourite song of Fela. He had no problem quickly declaring that “My favorite is ‘Zombie.'” And what was his reason? He answered: […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) A thief is a thief whether he steals a golden crown or a cocoyam. The way we are now glamourising stealing and making celebrities of common felons, indicates that we are too far gone in our descent into amoralism. It wasn’t quite many decades ago when stealing was a shameful thing. […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG My good brother, Wole Arisekola asked the following questions, please if you can assist him, kindly do ####I woke up this morning with the following thoughts on my mind; 1. What suddenly happened to the Bring Back Our Girls movement? Have the girls returned? 2. Why has Dasuki not gone back to court […] Read more

By Michael West MaTaZ ArIsInG November 12, 2021 I knew before hand that last week’s topic would elicit reactions that would raise some profound underlying issues in the family life of the clergy. The reactions came from the Christian circle more because their issues are much more reported in the media than the others. There […] Read more