Dr Olu Agunloye,Abuja. 4 October 2021 The trending video of fake cement blocks, courtesy: Editor Abashi Luka, has caught my attention. The video shows how newly delivered blocks were crumbling at site. The word “fake” is appropriate here because the “concrete” blocks were produced to conceal their defects in order to deceive or to trick […] Read more
Nigeria’s organised Islamic terrorism problem did not start in 2009. It’s a lot more insidious than you think. In March 2021, a 96 year-old businessman died in Rome, Italy. In his lifetime, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin might have amassed a personal fortune of close to half a billion dollars, but the death of NASCO Group’s multimillionaire […] Read more
BACK PAGE COLUMN By Michael West MaTaZ ArIsInG October 1, 2021 In the years gone by, ‘hired’ parents and ‘borrowed’ in-laws were a necessity for an urgent arrangement to fulfill “all righteousness” in the process of solemnising a marriage. It used to be a family affair in which people other than the biological parents of […] Read more
By Dauda Hussaini Paiko Northern Governors are the most useless set of Governor’s in the world. They don’t meet to discuss ideas of how to improve life, add value to their states. The only time they meet is when discussing Social Media Bill or Presidency. We have 19 Northern States. Out of that 19, only […] Read more
By Olusola Ajiboye SHAKING OFF THE MANACLES Until the Fulani Jihadists were defeated at the Jalumi wars of 1840, their objectives of “dipping the Quran in the sea” could have seen a large swath of the Yoruba Country subjugated to the Fullani Emirate Rule. The assassination of Kakanfo Afonja by his Fulani allies and the […] Read more
Monday Lines By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 27 September, 2021) Alhaji Baba Ahmed, a Mauritanian cow seller, plied his trade from his country to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and to Dahomey (now Benin Republic). Business was very good but at a point, his customers in Dahomey, with impunity, refused to […] Read more
We are already in a constitutional crisis. The destruction of democracy might not come until November 2024, but critical steps in that direction are happening now. In a little more than a year, it may become impossible to pass legislation to protect the electoral process in 2024. Now it is impossible only because anti-Trump Republicans, […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) Contemporary Africa comprises countries cobbled together by colonialists for their own interest. In the case of Nigeria, British colonialism was, as playwright Ola Rotimi would put it, in the service of their ‘female king’. The two hitherto distinct halves of Nigeria (Northern and Southern Protectorates) have managed to stay together as one […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG I lost a good fried, Dr. Obadiah (Obed) Mailafia on Sunday at the young age of 64 years, apparently, from the Covid19 pandemic. Yes, another casualty in the long list of distinguished Nigerians lost to this dreaded disease. As I always say to all my friends and relations, take your vaccination, follow the […] Read more
By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. Politics like football or soccer as Americans will call it, has seasons when stars are open to transfer from club to club. This is usually a season their handlers must seek to strengthen their team in their areas of weaknesses with the view to have a competitions’ winning team. Political atmosphere […] Read more
