By Michael West MaTaZ ArIsInG January 7, 2022 Considering the messy and scandalous level the controversy generated by the separation announced by Queen Naomi has assumed especially on social media, I think His Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Eniitan Ogunwusi, should back off and allow Queen Naomi Silekunola go away. I propose this as my humble and […] Read more
By Basil Okoh Northerners call him SIRAJO but Olu Obasanjo likes to pride himself as a man of the world. Most public statements he makes and what he does are full of underhand pettiness and native mischief with a keen eye on the private gain. Obasanjo has been an insuppressible interloper in Nigeria’s public affairs […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG Monday, 3 January, 2022) We’ve all walked gingerly into the uncharted dawn of 2022 hoping to make some sense of its covetous threats. Jonathan Swift, 18th century satirist and author, wrote of ‘The Day of Judgement’ when “the graves give up their dead” and “thunder roars and lightning […] Read more
By Simon Kolawole Dissonance: Is that the right word to describe the contradiction between word and action? Like the man putting up a “No Smoking” sign while a slowly burning stick of cigarette is trapped between his lips? There are too many things I cannot understand about my country. They look so simple, so commonsensical […] Read more
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In December 18, 2021’s Saturday Tribune/Peoples Gazette column, I argue that no amount of mass deaths in the North will cause the region to genuinely ask for Buhari’s ouster. But let him leave Islam or be accused of “blasphemy.” No one can contain the fury and unrest. Enjoy: Quite a […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 20 December, 2021) ‘The Man who looks history in the face’ is the title Professor Wole Soyinka put on the Foreword. Of course, “the man” here is Bisi Akande, the author of ‘My Participations’, an autobiography that is roiling calm across Nigeria. Soyinka endorses the book […] Read more
By Festus Adedayo While the gale of deconstruction of My Participations, an autobiography of Chief Bisi Akande, former governor of Osun State and pioneer National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) was going on last week, the photograph of another skyscraper property of his, built during his governorship of Osun and located in his […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 13 December, 2021) There is a huge noise over Chief Bisi Akande’s autobiography released on Thursday, December 9, 2021 in Lagos. I have not read the book. But I have read what the media says the book contains. I have also read the book review by […] Read more
👉Stashed and hidden away in Dubai, Abu Dabi and other cities of the UAE are over $200billion of loots taken out of Nigeria by the political bandits and their private sector cronies to buy properties, malls, Yatch, and other luxury assets. 👉Hidden away in UAE banks and other liquid assets are billions of dollars stolen […] Read more
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In today’s Saturday Tribune/Peoples Gazette column, I dissect why Muslim northerners are drowning in oceans of their own blood but still tolerate or only mildly call out Buhari’s infernal ineptitude that’s causing this. I show that this sort of hypocrisy isn’t unique to the region: Northern Nigeria, particularly Muslim northern […] Read more
