By Onyeoma CY MaTaZ ArIsInG Tinubu has the largest amount of cash in Nigeria. The volume of traffic that passes Lekki Toll Gate in a day is massive. The cash that the toll gate makes in a day was enough motivation for Tinubu to unleash Nigerian Army on Nigeria Youths. With the power of money, […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG This week’s column uses insights gleaned from sources and the past to argue that the cold war between Tinubu and Buhari that bubbled to the surface this week with Tinubu’s impassioned Abeokuta outburst will graduate to a real hot war in short order: The Tinubu-Buhari Cold War Is Becoming […] Read more
By Bolanle Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG A Few days ago, I stumbled upon, and began to read once more, the epochal, historical, and profound 1776 American Declaration of Independence. The abuse and violation of rights; and the disdain in which the American colonies were held by the British Crown, beggars belief! The blunt and arrogant refusal […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG This week, there will be a stampede in Nigeria. Stampede for the new Nigerian currencies. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) policy of currency change has been variously lauded for its power to purge the system of slush funds warehoused for election purposes. However, its symptom as a vengeful political weapon manifests as […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG “There is always enough light for one who wishes to see”. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS) The forthcoming presidential elections will be determined, to a large extent, by the votes of the youths. There has been so much talk about how each succeeding generation in the last 62 years has betrayed the Nigerian […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInG This week’s column looks at how Tinubu’s continuing public stumbles with the fatiha, the first chapter of the Qur’an, is shifting the conversation, among both Muslims and Christians, from the same-faith ticket he leads to his Muslim bona fides: From “Muslim-Muslim” to “Is He Really a Muslim?”By Farooq A. […] Read more
By Bola Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG I have deliberately elected not to comment frontally on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s New Year letter to Nigerian youths, of all segments of Nigeria’s population, because the writer behaves like Satan preaching Christ to unbelievers! I think that is why many have chosen to allude to the dichotomy between the […] Read more
Basil Okoh MaTaZ ArIsInG The unceasing movement of Atiku Abubakar to different political parties typifies the restlessness of the elite to position themselves for maximum benefit from the institutionally corrupt system, migrating from party to party looking for vantage positions for benefit to the self and to no other. Atiku Abubakar is the champion of […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Obasanjo has never had kind words for this government. He had asked Buhari to resign in 2019 when he supported Atiku. So the presidency should have disregarded the arrows in the letter and taught Nigerians how to react with maturity to unpalatable political endorsements. The presidency could have engaged […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG By Promise Adiele The creative impact of the epistolary literary mode has considerably waned in the 20th century. Popularized in Africa by Senegalese writer Mariama Ba through her novella So Long A Letter, the epistolary mode penetrates social fabric, ex-raying the relationship between two interlocutors – the writer and reader. For inexplicable reasons, the epistolary […] Read more
