By Lasisi Olagunju (Published on MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 1 November, 2021) Today, November 1, 2021, is the 143rd anniversary of the Jalumi War. Some historians call it the Battle of Ikirun but Jalumi (meaning: plunge into river) is the more popular name for the one-day war that commenced at dawn on Friday, November 1, […] Read more
Imagination,assumption or real permutations? The protegè who has no political clout has the mentor to thank for his rise and rise. The one who should be the puppet is now the puppeteer. Now the fate of both the protegè and his mentor is in the hand of the puppeteer. The puppeter was the creation of […] Read more
On Diezani’s $12.5M Diamond encrusted bras auction– Nigerians are ungrateful creatures, says Diezani
…Bankole Adeleke Well, Diezani is not willing to sit this one out and is telling her own side of the story. And it’s not just illuminating and refreshing, but would invoke, especially among those with conscience, sympathy/empathy for her, and gratitude, yes, gratitude to her for what she went through all for the sake of […] Read more
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
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