By Bola Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG Our elders have a saying, to wit, that once hunger is removed from poverty, what is left is manageable. Another way of saying that is: Once hunger enters a stomach, nothing else can find its way there! Little wonder, then, that the Jamaican reggae superstar, Bob Nestar Marley, crooned that […] Read more
By Bolanle Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG Penultimate Wednesday, 5th July, 2023, all roads led to Chrisland University, Abeokuta as my friend and brother, Prof. Babafemi Adesina Badejo, delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of Political Science and International Relations. Badejo’s inaugural lecture stood out for at least two reasons: It was the first in the university […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG My column this week chronicles the impressions that registered in me when I visited Jamaica for a vacation recently. You will find more photos on my site: Jamaica is West Africa in the AmericasBy Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi My wife and I vacationed in Jamaica for a week a […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Ilorin city was founded in the late 18th century by Laderin, a Yoruba man, the great-grandfather of Afonja. He was succeeded by his son, Pasin, a powerful warrior who became a threat and target to Basorun Gaha because of his rising profile. He was driven into exile and killed. Alagbin, his son was […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines Ile Ife and Oyo Ile were at the very core of the cultural and political essence of the Yoruba. While the whole of the Yoruba have managed to preserve Ile-Ife as home for all, Oyo Ile, some 200 plus years ago, was lost to the pillage of the […] Read more
By Dr. Wumi Akintide MaTaZ ArIsInG 4 distinguished Yoruba icons who risked their lives to broker peace between Biafra and Nigeria during the Civil War from 1967 to 1970. It is often rumored by a cross section of Nigerians that most Igbos and most Yorubas don’t get along, Not so in my own family circles […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG EFCC LEADERSHIP: THE ILLEGALITY OF PROMOTION AND THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION – FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE NORTH AND THE EXTINCTION OF THE SOUTH. AN OPEN PETITION TO PRESIDENT TINUBU, GCFR Petitioners: Progressive Nigerians ABSTRACTThe survival of Nigeria as a federal nation depends largely on equitable distribution of rights, maintenance of justice, equity […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines Immediate past Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, recently waxed proverbial and made a Facebook post which sounded like a loud complaint: “The axe forgets but the tree remembers…They are the axe. We are the trees. We have long memories. God Bless Nigeria. Amen.” El-Rufai made that sour post […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG By Bolanle BOLAWOLE For the first time since Independence in 1960, Nigeria’s economy expanded slower than its population between 2015 and 2020. Nigeria’s GDP per capita declined by 0.02 per cent, 4.16 per cent and 1.78 in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively; in 2018, 2019 and 2020, it declined by 0.68, 0.38 and […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG This week’s column tackles the rhetorical fraud of the justifiers of petrol subsidy removal and shows that subsidy removal will do more harm than good in the short and long term: Subsidy Removal As Elite Banditry, Reverse Robin HoodismBy Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi I really wanted to stop talking […] Read more
