Opinion

ZADDY FOR LIFE!

May 11, 2023

By Toyin Falola My bald head and protruding stomach make me look like a “Sugar Daddy!” When seen with a driver and a nice jeep, I become Sugar Daddy X.

Varsity don backs Buhari’s fresh loan, says it’s good for country

May 11, 2023

Prof. Lai Olurode, erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, says the fresh loan facility being sought by President Muhammadu Buhari is for the good of

Digging Deep: Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim on Nigeria’s 2023 Elections

May 6, 2023

By Toyin Falola “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times…” This is the epic opening to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, considered one

Travelling the world with Bisi Ajala

May 5, 2023

By Olayinka Oyegbile Ajala travelled all over the world- Ebenezer Obey (A review of An African Abroad, Olabisi Ajala, Masobe Books, Lagos, 2023) Many Nigerians of my age grew

The Obaro of Ikime: Our King Has Entered the Loft

April 28, 2023

By Toyin Falola Our long-lived king, the Obaro of Ikime, has committed death. Death does not kill a king; rather, the king requests the services of death to

Declare suspended Adamawa REC wanted, CSO tells Police

April 28, 2023

The Partners for Electoral Reform, a Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has asked the police to as a matter of urgency declare Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of

Tinubu returns today

April 24, 2023

The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is to return back to the country today. Feelers from inside his camp indicate that all hands are on deck to receive him today

Okey Ndibe’s Arrows of Rain: The Leadership Curse in Africa and Its Etcetras

April 24, 2023

By Toyin Falola There is a saying that “fiction” is fictitious — as there is no pure work of fiction devoid of insights and influences from actual occurrences

Five Takeaways from Nigeria’s 2023 Elections (1)

April 21, 2023

Elections help to feel the pulse of the people. They reflect their positions on matters of national importance and, at their very essence, the impacts of those positions on their

4-1-9!

April 18, 2023

By Toyin Falola When the drafters of the Nigerian Criminal Code Act formulated Section 419 of the Act, I am sure that they never intended that the number of the

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