Australian parents support social media ban for under-16
Australian parents have supported the country’s under-16 social media ban, even as most surveyed parents use social media daily, this is according to a new research. The study, conducted by Edith Cowan University (ECU) and Playgroup WA in Western Australia (WA), surveyed 726 parents of children aged between zero and eight years on their […]
NAF helicopter returns to base after precautionary landing
Three days after the crash of an Airforce plane, a Nigerian Air Force (NAF), helicopter has returned to base after a successful precautionary landing approximately 10 nautical miles from the airfield. The Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in […]
The Toyin Falola Annual Lecture At Adeleke University: History, Power and Africa’s Future
By Toyin Falola The creation of the Adeleke University Toyin Falola Annual Lecture (AUToFAL) means more than the name of a scholarly project. It marks the beginning of a major intellectual idea for the institution and the country. Universities are formed not just by debates in classrooms, experiments in laboratories, research in libraries, and […]
Onward to the Next World: Tinwo Fatoki, 1951–2026
By Toyin Falola Tinwo Fatoki, Ọmọ Ìbàdàn Your name rises where the talking drum speaks. The hills receive it, The courtyards return it in praise. A great tree falls— Yet its shade remains in memory. We gather beneath your name, Each bringing a word of honor. May the earth hold you gently; May the […]
Whose Archive, Whose History? Reclaiming the African Past
By Toyin Falola I was impressed by the youth-dominated audience that attended my lecture on October 6, 2026, on archives hosted by the G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos, as part of the MOWAA in Residence fellowship. Space does not allow me to speak elaborately on this public lecture, which attracted significant questions and concerns. Before […]
Air Force releases names of crash victims
The Nigeria Air Force has made public names of those who died in the ill-fated aircraft on Monday. The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) ATR 42 aircraft, NAF 931, had crashed in Igbokoda, Ondo State, on a routine flight to Lagos. The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke, has […]
An Open Letter to a DISTRESSED PRIEST
BY Wole Soyinka My dear Reverend Aburo, You have reached out to me, and I feel moved by your entreaty. You urge me to say something, anything at all to silence the recent caterwauling – my own deliberate choice of words — by our familiar custodians and adjudicators of the public weal. In […]
Joseph Abayomi Olagunji and Ayandiji Daniel Aina, Anthology of the History and Culture of Oke-Ila Orangun: A Review
By Toyin Falola History is not remembered in only one way. A community with history survives through holding onto the traditions it inherited, knowing who its ancestors are, the families and compounds they are from, the stories told by its elders, the institutions that organize communal life, and the rituals, foods, occupations, and performances […]
CETA Amendment Bill: A tax for good health
By Robert Egbe Something strange happened to Enugu-based paediatrician, Dr. Chiwetalu Odoh, last Christmas eve. Summoned to the Children’s Emergency Unit at the hospital in Enugu, he expected to meet a critically ill child. Instead, he found a little girl, her mother and her aunt, seated quietly in the waiting area. At first […]
Tunde Babawale at 65: The scholar who refused to keep knowledge in the classroom
By Toyin Falola It is a privilege to have been invited to give a scholarly lecture on Professor Tunde Babawale at a well-attended virtual celebration to mark his birthday on October 4, 2026. He was my student at Ife in the 1970s, and we have known one another without break for well over four […]
