A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR OLU OBAFEMI, PART 4
OBAFEMI’S HARDWARE: THE ACADEMIC AND LEADERSHIP NEXUS By Toyin Falola PART A THE INTERVIEW (Unedited Transcript) How and why did you choose academics out of all the career options open to you? As I said, the academia literally chose me, initially. In our time, there was very minimal mentorship and career […]
A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR OLU OBAFEMI, PART 3
Transnational Experience PART A THE INTERVIEW (Unedited Transcript) By Toyin Falola How did you end up studying in Great Britain? The idea of going abroad to study was not even one of our most distant dreams as young students. Names like Wole Soyinka, JP Clark and soon being abroad were to us some special names […]
DJ Switch gets American Fellowship
By Olayinka Oyegbile DJ Switch (Obianuju Catherine Udeh), the disc jockey who was at the centre of shooting the controversial shooting of peaceful protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in October 2020, has been awarded the prestigious Reagan-Fascell Fellowship for Democracy. The Fellowship named after former America President Ronald Reagan is awarded to pro-democracy activists […]
A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR PAUL ZELEZA, PART 3
Family background and social upbringing (Unedited transcript) By Toyin Falola Tell me, who is Paul Tiyambe Zeleza? First, let me begin by thanking you, Toyin, for the honor and opportunity to do this interview with you. In the African intellectual community, both on the […]
A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR OLU OBAFEMI, PART 2
ORIGINS PART A: THE INTERVIEW By Toyin Falola (unedited transcript) Who is Olu Obafemi? Obafemi By the framing of this question, I surmise a concern with my genealogy, my ancestry, family tree and so on. Quite a mouthful and may be an exercise in tedium. I shall be brief, merging, inseparably, your first […]
CAPPA decries crisis in public water supply in Lagos
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has bemoaned the consistent shortage of water in Lagos despite the call on the Lagos State Government on residents to observed the protocols of Covid-19. Washing of hands and availability of water is one of he cardinal rules of observing the protocols of Covid-19. Speaking at a special […]
A CONVERSATION WITH BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH, PART 5
Bishop Hassan Kukah: The radicalization of religion By Toyin Falola (This is the second report on the interview conducted with Bishop Hassan Kukah on March 7, 2021) For its entire recording, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NVxw-vwBaI) The different stages of both social and political development are well documented in human history. Given their interconnectivity, they combine […]
The women in our lives
By Olayinka Oyegbile Always be careful of what you hear about a woman. Rumours come from either a man who can’t have her or a woman who can’t compete with her- Unkown On March 8 the world was agog celebrating what was dubbed International Women’s Day. The United Nation’s decision to choose one day […]
CAPPA raps NAFDAC over fast-tracking trans fat regulations
By Taiwo Alimi The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, (CAPPA) has urged The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to fast track the process of passing to law the trans fatty acid (TFA) regulations. Speaking at the two-day journalists’ training for effective reporting of trans fat in Nigeria, in Lagos, […]
Toyin Falola: A dancing mask and his footprints
By Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju “You cannot stand in one spot to watch a dancing mask,” states an Igbo proverb quoted by the novelist Chinua Achebe. You need to watch the mask from various vantage points in order to better appreciate its dynamism, its combination of visual power and dazzling motion. As with the mask, […]
