By Farooq Kperogi Sometime late last year, a video of a horrible death trap of a bridge in the town of Moro in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State trended on social media. Although the bridge looked like it could cave in at any time, it was still being used by motorists, cyclists, and […] Read more

By Rufai Oseni It is inebriating, when I hear some words used in our public discourse, like the elite consensus and I ask who truly are the Nigerian elite? I have constantly inquired, what makes up the Nigerian elite class? Is it the rent seeking they benefited from at the expense of other hardworking Nigerians, […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye  A wagging tail is usually found at the rear end of an excited dog, but a wagging dog in front of a static tail? Only in Nigeria, where the barrack mentality of military dictatorship has been smuggled into the unitary constitution to reduce the people to subjects and their elected local leaders […] Read more

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