MaTaZ ArIsInG As a compulsive optimist, I want to share this post, for it may encourage a rethink in many of our people that are losing hope in our nation. This brilliant masterpiece was written by the scion of a legend, the inimitable D.O Fagunwa (Author of Ireke Onibudo, Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo irunmole, Irinkerido […] Read more
By Ayo Dada MaTaZ ArIsInG Former Nigeria military head of state Ibrahim Babangida said he annulled the June 12, 1993, presidential election to prevent a coup in the country The June 12 1993 election is widely regarded as Nigeria’s fairest election with Moshood Kashimawo Olalekan (MKO) Abiola in the lead to become president before it […] Read more
BACK PAGE COLUMN By Michael West MaTaZ ArIsInG August 6, 2021 Only recently, it dawned on me that not a few married women are in limbo of hopeless sexual inactivity in their marriages. Let’s disregard the facade of happiness and superficial fulfillment some women display outside, many of them are in silent agony over sexual […] Read more
By Bamidele Temitope Johnson MaTaZ ArIsInG With the APC and PDP, we’re left with an option between suicide and suicide. The APC, in six years, however gifted with are at the use of deodorizers, has bombed. The PDP, very deliberately, forgets that it sired the APC with its 16 better forgotten years and provided it […] Read more
by Gbonka Ebiri MaTaZ ArIsInG The Struggle of the Hausa Against the Fulani The first charismatic Hausa leader to unite his people against Fulani overlords was a scholar by the name Abd al-Salam; another Hausa scholar by the name Dan Buya joined him. His movement started around 1818, shortly after the death of Usman Dan Fodio. […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 2 August, 2021) MaTaZ ArIsInG The mountain top is a great place to be, but it is very slippery. History is full of cases of very promising heads lost to the sharp edges of indiscretion, of meeting or making bad friends, and of taking wrong bends. […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG On Friday, February 28, 1986, Samuel Cookey, a professor of political science, who had just been given an appointment by then military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, wrote a letter requesting the Yoruba sage, Pa Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo, to avail the Nigerian state the benefit of his wisdom. He (Cookey) did not […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG Saturday, July 31, 2021 Twitter: @farooqkperogi Although there is no art to decipher the cunning of crooked cops, DPC Abba Kyari gave us many red flags to cause us to be suspicious of his policing, but many people ignored it. I, for one, have an abiding suspicion of people […] Read more
By Richard Odusanya Contributor – Ayo Dada It was an American science fiction author and a multiple award winner, Octavia Butler who succinctly captured the whole essence of leadership and its consequences. He posited thus: “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that […] Read more
By Ayo Dada, Contributor – Ayo Ojo MaTaZ ArIsInG July 28, 2021 The increased insecurity situation in the northern parts of Nigeria is extremely concerning and thus it has become necessary for our leaders in the southern part of the country to put aside party affiliations and other partisan issues that may come into play, […] Read more
