By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG Social media have their good and bad sides. If you close your eyes to avoid seeing the bad sides, chances are that your eyes will still be shut when the good sides pass you by. In the wake of the tragic loss of lives in the unfortunate accident where a […] Read more
By OLUSOLA AJIBOYE MaTaZ ArIsInG Until the last vote was registered at the National Collation Centre of Independent National Electoral Commission – INEC in Abuja on Monday 27th February, 2023, majority of Nigerians were oblivious that the fiercest and most keenly contested presidential and parliamentary polls in the annals of the country’s political history had […] Read more
By Bolanle Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain – 1 Corinthians 9:24 The word of God stands true and cannot be broken. Anyone who pays heed to it, be they Christian, Muslim or unbelievers, will […] Read more
Monday Lines – By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 27 February, 2023) Who registered the kids we saw in the election queues in Kano on Saturday? I watched video clips of women on lines with four, five, six-year-old kids. They were all there to cast votes. I saw, in […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG Today is the tomorrow you fretted about yesterday. You had thought that we were at the portals of oblivion in the run-up to the presidential elections. By now, we are all supposed to have vaporised. I made a quick check at dawn this morning; the sun still rose from the […] Read more
Monday Lines by Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG (Published on Monday, 20 February, 2023) (I am calm. I am calm. It is the calm before something awful – Sylvia Plath, American poet and short story writer). Convener of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Professor Ango Abdullahi, was asked by the Sunday Tribune in an interview last […] Read more
By Emma Nwosu MaTaZ ArIsInG Atiku and Tinubu The Fulani to Fulani succession plot (from Muhammadu Buhari to Atiku Abubakar) is as ominous as the all-Moslem ticket of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shetima. Both are plots of subjugation and must be equally condemned, given our circumstances. “Rotation could only be repudiated when the concessionary quota […] Read more
By Bolanle Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it – Karl Marx. Last Friday as I engaged in my usual house chores of washing my dirty clothes to exercise my limbs, I heard a sermon. By His grace I do always […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG The Buhari regime’s naira “redesign” policy is causing discomfiture in the APC camp and joy in opposition camps. But will it benefit the opposition? Which candidate will benefit the most from it? That’s what I examine in this week’s column: Which Candidate Will Benefit from Buhari’s Naira Policy? By […] Read more
By Ayo Dada MaTaZ ArIsInG While I condemn the implementation of the naira redesign policy of President Buhari and the CBN Governor, Mr. Emefiele that has brought untold hardship to the ordinary people of Nigeria who are already struggling to survive the hell brought upon them by the incompetent administration of the president, I understand […] Read more
