By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Land grabbers would seize your land at gunpoint and ask you to go to court. What would make one of INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) do what he did in Adamawa State yesterday (Sunday) other than the effrontery of land grabbing? Who asked him to do it? Declare a winner […] Read more
By Omole, Olugbemiga MaTaZ ArIsInG My attention has been brought to the good news that you featured our incoming President of Nigeria, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu as one of the most influential people in the World! I believe you’re not misplaced in your feature and quite agree with you that Mr. Bola Tinubu has been […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Basil Okoh No farmer apprehends a thief in his barnyard and allows him to go with the loot. No, the farmer will demand to have his treasures back. Many in Nigeria are rooting for electoral thieves to keep the offices stolen from the true winners of elections. We want peace, they say. So […] Read more
By Bola Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG You cross the line with the Obidients, as the supporters of Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate in the February 25th presidential election call themselves, if you query the credentials of their Al Capone or disagree with their narrative of the presidential election, especially its outcome. If you say Obi […] Read more
By Ruben Abati MaTaZ ArIsInG The “Obidients” – supporters of the mission and vision of Mr. Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party in Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential election had it coming. And now they are getting their “comeuppance” served in flagellating doses, from Professor Wole Soyinka, grandmaster in the art of dissent, debate and reasoning […] Read more
Basil Okoh MaTaZ ArIsInG The Nigerian government and its officials dread technology, all forms of it. They hate the accuracy, efficiency and correct accounting that technology brings and offers to the management of difficult situations and complications. Technology demands responsibility from officials to do the right things and thereafter held to account. Nigeria’s officialdom cannot […] Read more
Monday Lines: By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG Like Nigeria’s multiple-award winning poet, Professor Niyi Osundare, I am also “farmer-born, peasant-bred.” Like him, I “encountered dawn in the enchanted corridors of the forest.” A powerful pastor once came to our village with drums and flutes. It was supposed to be a one-off visit but that first […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG This week’s column uses the tension and animosities of the 2023 election as the launching pad to make a case for systematizing inter- and intra-regional power rotation at all levels of government in Nigeria in the interest of national cohesion: 2023 Election Highlights Imperative of Power RotationBy Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi Nigeria is […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday Lines: By Lasisi Olagunju Under the cover of darkness, a dish was placed on a highway in Lagos at the weekend. It was food for the gods but it was a madman that we saw eating it on Saturday morning. The video trended online in competition with the shrieks of electoral madness […] Read more
By Bolanle Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG Last week, former vice-president and PDP presidential candidate in the recently-concluded presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, led some Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governors, party leaders and supporters to stage a protest at the INEC headquarters in Abuja. Their grouse was what they described as the rigging of the Saturday, 25th […] Read more
