MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas In today’s Saturday column, I examine how Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi’s phantom presidential council scandal exposes a Nigerian state so porous and so rotten that a counterfeit agency could walk through its corridors wearing the face of power: The Phantom Presidential Council Scandal By Farooq A. Kperogi I first received a WhatsApp forward […] Read more
Authored by Wale Bakare MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Dear President Tinubu, Kindly accept my greetings delivered with due respect. I write to you over the the trending matter of the ‘Fake Agency’ that is presently capturing the attention of Nigerians, and indeed, the world. I believe it must have given you too some concern because of […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 28 June 2026). Someone accosted me recently and asked the question: Why are you Yoruba always the troublers of Nigeria? And my mind immediately went to the same question King Ahab had asked […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Monday Lines 2 By Lasisi Olagunju (Published on Monday, 29 June, 2026). “The Federal Police Service shall temporarily intervene in the internal security affairs of a state and shall, to the extent necessary, assume specified operational responsibility, including temporary operational command of a State Police Service or any part thereof…” (Section 214(10). […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Monday Lines 1 By Lasisi Olagunju (Published on Monday, 29 June, 2026). “Boldness, be my friend. Arm me, audacity, from head to foot.” Some live by that Shakespearean creed. They say aloud what society only whispers. They speak the unsayable, damn the world and make a difference. Northern Nigeria had the late […] Read more
Basil Okoh MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Since 2023, courts in Nigeria have become sources of emotional titillation and entertainment. It’s a very national performance and grand in its various renditions, connecting all the courts in the land. It’s a vaudeville performance in courts spread across the land, the latest now being in Lokoja, each court playing […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas I think the mood of the Nation is that Nigeria needs to establish police services at the state level to address the massive growth of insecurity in the country. After decades of agitation, the Senate on Wednesday passed the bill seeking to establish state police in Nigeria. The legislation seeks to establish […] Read more
Dr Abejide Olusegun MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Nigeria stands today as a constitutional republic, not a caliphate, not a monarchy, and certainly not a federation of hereditary kingdoms. The framers of the 1999 Constitution did not create an aristocracy above the Nigerian people. They created a republic founded upon equality, federalism, secularism, and the principle that […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Never poison a stream from which you may want to drink in future. That is a profound and timeless warning from the stable of our forebears. It is closely related to the modern idiom, “Don’t burn your bridges.” In a literal sense, this proverb speaks directly to ecological and resource […] Read more
By Charles Kumolu, MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Xenophobic attacks: ‘Nigerians always first suspects even when other Africans commit crime’— Onyekwelu, President-General, Nigerian group in S/Africa Deputy Editor South Africa is once again edging towards pariah status, not globally as it did during the apartheid era, but within Africa itself. Unlike the past, when apartheid made the country a […] Read more
