MaTaZ ArIsInG The group picture below has been making the rounds on social media for about a month now, it is a very interesting one indeed. It is interesting because, until PBAT gatecrashed their party, by accident or by design, these boys/young men in uniform have been in the corridors of power since Nigeria’s independence, […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines There was a time in Nigeria’s media history when a certain Ebenezer Williams was arguably one of the country’s best newspaper columnists. But that popular name was a pseudonym, a fictitious identity. The masquerade donning that beautiful costume was Abiodun Aloba, colonial and post-colonial Nigeria media genius. He […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG By Bolanle BOLAWOLE On Tuesday, 13 June, 2023, I was at the University of Ibadan where I delivered a public lecture titled “The task before Nigeria’s 16th Head of State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu” at the 31st anniversary of the Resurrection Morning Star Society, Chapel of Resurrection of the university. Following is an abridged […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG It was the cat that stole the fish but the police arrested the dog, a situation that made the baboon take to his heels. “Why are you running?” Forest dwellers asked him. “I know that the dog’s arrest is a decoy; the chains held by the police are designed for […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG This week’s column gives 3 reasons Tinubu’s appointments have won him some brownie points. Plus, some hard home truths about his emerging subsidies-for-the-rich-shege-for-the-poor economic policies: Why Tinubu’s Hiring and Firing Frenzy Excites NigeriansBy Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi After an unexpectedly sluggish start (it took him longer than usual to […] Read more
By Ajagunakin MaTaZ ArIsInG From what I can see through my crystal ball, the future looks very bleak for North. I don’t mean the entire geographical North, but the sahel Islamic part. Tinubu has completely outsmarted them, and if it’s a game of chess, this is what we call checkmate. Tinubu cunningly sold them a […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines In 1948, Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, thought of the best way to protect his country’s security information from invasive media toxins. He summed his strategy up in one short sentence: “Take the thief and make him guard.” But a thief would remain a thief even if […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG Taraba (serving Taraba, Borno and Adamawa).The list also includes; United Air Service, Aras Airline Ltd, Nigeria Global, Nigeria Eagle (which commissioned an aircraft but didn’t fly and had to take it back); Harco Airline, Premier Airline, Al Bashir, Trans-Sahara Airline, ADC, Oriental Airline, Axiom Airline, Forward Air, Slok Air, Das […] Read more
By Dele Sobowale MaTaZ ArIsInG “When evil men must seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo; good men must try and bring into being real order of justice” – Reverend Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968. The suspension and subsequent arrest of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has brought the inevitable collision between […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG Here’s this week’s column on the controversy VP Kashim Shettima stirred over his call for a Christian Senate President: Shettima: From “Boko Haram Sponsor” to Anti-Muslim Muslim?By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi Vice President Kashim Shettima is undergoing an interesting notional transformation in Nigeria’s fractured public sphere. Before and during […] Read more
