By Farooq Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG Is Buhari trying to pick up a fight with Tinubu before he leaves Aso Rock? That’s the question this week’s column tackles: Buhari’s Last-Minute Provocations of TinubuBy Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi After failing to stop him from emerging as APC’s flag bearer in 2022 and mounting steep hurdles for him […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines May Sudan not happen to Nigeria. This piece starts with prayers. It has to. “Everyone in Africa believes in God…It’s the only way we can survive. People leave home praying that there will be electricity when they return. On the road, they pray that they will avoid motor […] Read more
By Bola Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG The interest generated in “Ubuntu and Omoluabi: Kindred spirit or what?” published in this column on March 22, 2023, is yet to die down. That day’s column was actually devoted to my brother and friend, Prof. Babafemi Badejo’s chronicle of his first visit to Zimbabwe titled “Quick visit to Zimbabwe: […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines The one who hasn’t been hit by war calls himself a man (Eni ìjà ò bá níí pe ‘ra è l’ókùnrin). The word for ‘fight’ in Yoruba is ‘ija’; but ‘ija’ is much more than ‘fight’. It means battle; it is also war. If you’ve never been caught […] Read more
By Bolanle Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG Downpresser man/Where you gonna run to/Downpresser man/Where you gonna run to Downpresser ma/Where you gonna run to/All along that day You gonna run to the sea/But the sea will be boiling/When you run to the sea The sea will be boiling (2x)/All along that day You gonna run to the […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG Here are six pieces of advice for Tinubu as he gets ready to be inaugurated as the next president: Six Agenda Items for Tinubu’s SuccessBy Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi Exactly a month from today, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be inaugurated as president of Nigeria—unless something seismically dramatic happens before […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG By Bola Bolawole The piece you are about to read was first published by me on 30th September, 2015, almost eight years ago and just four months into retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency. With little editing to whittle it down to fit into the space allotted,, it is as relevant today as it […] Read more
By Lekan Sote MaTaZ ArIsInG If the Yoruba of South-West Nigeria think the world is going to wait for them to get their act together, they’ve got a thing coming. They are going to serve new cultural and economic overlords even within their own portion of the earth. Other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria owe the […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG There are books and films on the life and times of Efunsetan Aniwura, the second Iyalode of Ibadan. She was rich, powerful and cold-hearted. Her success as a woman; her manly carriage and ruthlessness made her a perfect mark for envy and destruction. And she lost everything. But Iyalode did […] Read more
By Farooq Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG This week’s column wades into the controversy generated by Peter Obi’s reference to the poverty in the North in an April 18 Twitter thread: Obi Seems to Be Poverty-Shaming the North, But Is He?By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In a series of tweets on April 18, Labor Party presidential candidate […] Read more
