Thursday, November 12, 2026

Rudolf Okonkwo

June 30, 2023

Sokoto lynching and Jesus’ trial for blasphemy

When patterns repeat themselves, they become a tradition and we get desensitised.

Governor Ahmed Aliyu (Photo credit: Vanguard)
June 7, 2023

What would be the worth of your corpse?

After death, what happens next is critical.

A cemetery
May 27, 2023

Buhari delivers punches in his exit interview

I’m the first to agree to an exit interview. And I decided to do it with someone nobody will claim is a friend of my government.

President Muhammadu Buhari
May 20, 2023

Last last Seun Kuti becomes Obidient

Everything came together when Seun Kuti slapped a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge.

Seun Kuti detained by Nigeria police
May 5, 2023

How my family defeated the spirit of Ogbanje in us

I could hear Bola Tinubu responding to worried Nigerians by regurgitating the words of the first stanza of Soyinka’s poem, Abiku.

Bola Tinubu
April 27, 2023

Why we are dying by instalment

I present to you the late Professor Claude Ake in his own words.

Professor Claude Ake
April 20, 2023

What’s in Bola Tinubu’s FBI file?

When African leaders vote against their self-interest at the UN, check very well someone has been arm-twisted.

Bola Tinubu and FBI
April 8, 2023

The trials of Brother Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka should stop trying to adapt the world to himself. But he won’t. That is what makes all stubborn grandfathers stand out.

Wole Soyinka
March 29, 2023

Jesus may be in trouble in Netanyahu’s Israel

When leaders chip away at the tenets of democracy, it affects everything.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
March 21, 2023

As Bayo Onanuga joins the league of genocide champions in Nigeria

Those who intend to perpetuate genocide begin by finding ways, using laws and customs, to deny rights to the group they intend to slaughter.

Bayo Onanuga and isi agu cap