By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 25 October, 2021) I read Camara Laye’s ‘A Dream of Africa’ in secondary school. I still see the sky-high gate of his walled Africa; the murderous giants and guards; the cowering captives, terrorized and traumatized in their condemned prisoners cells. I remember the homicidal, militant ‘nationalists’ […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) A luta continua! Vitória é certa! (The struggle continues! Victory is certain!) That was our sing-song in those heady student union days when our blood boiled with patriotic fervour as we challenged the excesses or inadequacies of our unelected military fiefs. That battle cry is so central to the raison d’être […] Read more

By Ayo Dada WE NOW KNOW WHY IGBOHO MUST BE SILENCED AT ALL COST… EXCLUSIVE: How Fulani Bandits Coordinated Attacks On Oyo Correctional Facility To Free Warlord Wakili, Other Criminal Herdsmen In Detention The attack on the Abolongo correctional facility, Oyo town in Oyo State was planned and carried out by Fulani gunmen, believed also […] Read more

Basil Okoh – MaTaZ ArIsInG The big quarrel between the executive and legislative arms of the Federal Government is on the disagreement over giving an officially damning name to the killers, extortionists, rapists and kidnappers prowling the forests and scorching the schools, communities and towns of Northwestern Nigeria. Why is a cryptic name necessary to […] Read more

By Femi ADEOTI For 104 days, the greedy ones of Europe were busy butchering, sharing us. All at the same time; and at will. They did it dastardly, behaving like brutes. The ravaging colonialists never cared a hoot. They were careless whether our ox was gored. Or even savagely bruised. The end did justify the means […] Read more

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 18 October, 2021) Today’s party politics and adultery have same rule of engagement: there is no commitment to fidelity and conjugal permanence. We are in this thing for a reason and it is for a season. It is not till-death-do-us-part. We respect political seminaries abroad thinking […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) Repeat after me: I will not be anyone’s fool; not now, not tomorrow, not ever! The world inherited the word Pandora from the ancient Greek poet, Hesiod. In the poem, Works and Days, he told the story of Prometheus and Pandora. Prometheus had attempted to deceive the gods whose prefect was […] Read more

VANGUARD EDITORIAL The ordeal of a Member of House of Representatives (Ethiope East/West, Delta State), Hon. Ben Igbakpa, at the hands of Ghana airport security officials is another reminder for our leaders to handle crucial governance matters with care and maturity to prevent unwittingly exposing innocent citizens to avoidable hazards. We are still reeling from […] Read more

BACK PAGE COLUMN By Michael West MaTaZ ArIsInG October 15, 2021 Unless it truly turns out to be a publicity stunt and a hoax aimed at gaining media blitz as alleged in some quarters, Tiwa Savage, a sultry songstress and dancer, will be doing an incalculable discredit to her public image if her sex romp […] Read more