Opinion

Human rights and cultural limitations

December 15, 2020

By Toyin Falola Every year all around the world, people gather (in their minds, and also physically) to celebrate the International Human Rights Day, which has become

Olabiyi Yai: A farewell to the Pollyanna of Afro-optimism

December 9, 2020

Yai By Toyin Falola Staring through space that drowned my muse I fight to hide unbottled emotions with every stroke; And every image I attempt to word Gets lost

The Booker Prize and our own NLNG

December 4, 2020

As long as we can read, we can travel, we can escape, we can explore, we can laugh, we can cry and we can grapple with life’s mysteries – Duchess

Jerry John Rawlings: The sneaky elixir of multiple destinies

November 27, 2020

By Toyin Falola The Rawlings Rawlings, In the days of troubles In periods of war In times of risk, You stayed as a great man for some A

Kaduna State and its agriculture APPEALS

November 19, 2020

By Mainasara Aminu Gov El-Rufai It is clear that Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai is working literally like a big bull-dozer to revitalize Kaduna State in many respects. Some aspects

Femi Adesina And The Parable of The Tolerant Father

November 16, 2020

By Achike Chude Re: Femi Adesina’s ‘We Have Not Many Fathers’ And so, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman says that we were lucky that the other side of the president that

The Soyinka excerpts

November 10, 2020

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book ― Kin Hubbard By Olayinka Oyegbile It was one of Nigeria’s most well-kept literary secrets. In fact, I can

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish: Donald Trump and the End of a Thrashy Presidency

November 7, 2020

By Toyin Falola Now the elections are over, and all speculations have been put to sleep. Let us do what humans are wont to: look back at how we dodged

Here we are

November 6, 2020

By Olayinka Oyegbile Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man – Francis Bacon To the devoted readers of this column on

The Aftermath of #EndSars: A Call for Social Justice

November 6, 2020

By Toyin Falola Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and so-called “Giant of Africa,” makes periodic headlines every four years for bad democratic practices with its election malpractices in the

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