Perspectives

Lagos world listing: An indication of Sanwo-Olu’s extraordinary leadership, By Babajide Fadoju

A beautiful environment sets the mood for every celebration. While there is a special environment for any kind of event, a serene and well designed locale will always be the dream of every tourist who wants to enjoy the most of their times celebrating a variety of occasions, the new year celebration for instance. With Lagos staying agog with parties,…

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Important notice: Don’t fall in love, By Basheer Luqman

If you love someone too much, your reasoning might be clouded. It will be difficult to see what’s right or wrong. For example, you might come to a point in your relationship where you will find emotional and physical abuse okay just because you love your partner. You might even find it acceptable if your partner gets a third party…

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For Kwara, 2023 is about facts and relatable history

By Rafiu Ajakaye  Soft-spoken, easy-to-admit his human frailties, and not given to noisemaking, Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq speaks only to give a message or deliver a blow of maximum impacts to the target. That’s what he recently did when he flagged-off the campaign for Turaki Ngeri and APC senatorial candidate for Kwara Central, Mallam Saliu Mustapha (MSM) in Ilorin. Remnants…

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S.M.O Aka, the letter writer, By Simbo Olorunfemi

This morning, for some rather strange reason, ruminating over Baba’s letter, my mind suddenly did a flip and the name, S.M.O Aka suddenly popped up. I can’t even remember that name coming to my mind in the last 30 years, but memory sure has a way of responding to the most unlikely trigger. But then, how could I have forgotten…

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Lest Nigerian youths be deceived by Obasanjo’s sanctimony and revisionism, By Dele Alake

On the whole, the latest epistolary misadventure by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is a gratuitous insult on the collective intelligence of Nigerians. In particular, his laborious attempt to prey on the innocence of much younger generation constitutes a grievous assault on public morality, seeking to force morsels of sheer falsehood down the throats of a demography perhaps too young to comprehend…

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Toyin Falola at 70: The reminiscing about a scholar and legend, By  Tunji Olaopa

TF, as Professor Toyin Falola, is known all over the world, has gracefully been inducted into the exalted and hoary circle of the septuagenarians. And strangely, his self-effacing self would not acknowledge nor celebrate this momentous occasion with at least a seminal offering as we are wont to. Sometimes in November, 2022, I raised the issue of the approaching 70th…

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Iyan-Ewu: Remembering my late parents, By Ismail Omipidan

Iyan-Ewu is a remake of pounded yam from the previous night — the leftover. It is also called Iyan-Ana (literally translated as yesterday’s pounded yam) in some parts of Yoruba land. But the sweet smell from the delicacy will always make one want to stop eating the real pounded yam and instead opt for the Iyan-Ewu. Just try it, especially…

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So much to be thankful for, By Simbo Olorunfemi

It is so easy to forget where the journey began from. A little ease, or sometimes a bit of discomfort, and we forget where we are coming from. It is in the nature of man, possibly for his own good, to find a way of condemning the past to the past. Yet, without properly situating the moment on the back…

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Is the diaspora now about rubbishing those at home? By Professor Toyin Falola

I am so sad as I write this. I never knew that things will become so bad. Immigrant scholars in the US have now become like the Europeans in 19th century Africa, the colonizers who saw nothing good about the continent. This is now the intellectual stuff on the Internet. I have read five in the last three days. I…

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Wike and the gang go to London, By Bolaji Adebiyi

It’s like the rebellion in the Peoples Democratic Party has reached a point of no return. Led by Nyesom Wike, governor of the oil-rich Rivers State, the rebelling governors, Seyi Makinde, Oyo State; Samuel Ortom, Benue State; Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia State; and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu State, have assembled in London ostensibly to determine the presidential candidate they would support in…

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