Perspectives
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How do you treat the dinner lady? Wale Bakare
Women and men are intrinsically different. That is fact. If a man comes into a party and sees another guy wearing a similar shirt or holding a phone like his, chances are he would go over to the guy and say “Hi. You also got this phone. Quite good. Fantastic features. Do you know it can do blah blah…..”. The…
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64 million Nigerians struggling for food, By Yemi Adebowale
Current statistics from the World Food Programme (WFP) on global food security revealed that 64.3 million Nigerians do not have enough food to consume. This is about 32 per cent of this country’s population. These Nigerians struggle for a meal a day. The WFP, an organisation of the United Nations, stated that the food insufficiency in Nigeria rose sharply in…
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Chimamanda’s epistle of garbage, By Femi Fani-Kayode
Chimamanda Adichie’s “hollow democracy” diatribe is a shitty little submission, in a shitty little letter, written by a shitty little diva. It was hardly worth my time to read and ordinarily I would not have bothered. Like all fecal waste it belongs in one place and one place alone: the bottom of a public toilet. We do not need any…
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NNPC’s prickly ‘political’ crude oil drilling, By Yemi Adebowale
Ten days back, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) lavishly celebrated the commencement of exploratory drilling of Ebenyi-A well in Obi, Nasarawa State, with the assurance that the effort would contribute to its aspiration to grow Nigeria’s crude oil reserves from 37 billion barrels to 50 billion barrels. President Muhammadu Buhari, speaking at the “spudding” of the well, the…
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Osun: Time to halt dubious and fraudulent attitude to governance is now! By Ismail Omipidan
Today is not about long turenci . It is to put the public in Osun and beyond on notice that what His Excellency, Adegboyega Oyetola, said in the build-up to the 2022 July governorship election is already playing out. Oyetola had warned his fellow contenders then not to play politics with people’s lives by promising what was practically impossible considering…
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Chimamanda: Nigeria’s positively growing democracy, By Dele Alake
The noted and internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist and essayist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, deserves a great deal of pity and sympathy for her so utterly biased piece titled ‘Nigeria’s hollow democracy’ published in the latest edition of ‘The Atlantic’ magazine. It is a piece that does little credit to the image and reputation of a leading Nigerian thinker who ought to…
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Good Friday; not really for Rwandans! By Emeka Oparah
“Tomorrow will not be a good Friday here,” my Rwandan friend said, melancholically, as we rounded off our call. And I got the message. Today (the tomorrow she was referring to) may have been ironically named Good Friday by Christians (in commemoration of the day Jesus Christ was murdered), but for Rwandans, today is literally and metaphorically (a) Bad Friday.…
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Chimamanda Adichie: Election is not a literary contest, By Kayode Adebiyi
Yesterday, I read an op-ed by Chimamanda Adichie addressed to the President of the United States published by The Atlantic, an influential foreign policy journal in the Unites States. Unfortunately, Chimamanda in her very beautiful prose and the usual high falluting language opined that her candidate, Peter Obi who came distant 3rd in the just concluded Nigerian presidential election was…
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Fascism on course, By Wole Soyinka
It would appear that a record discharge of toxic sludge from our notorious smut factory is currently clogging the streets and sewers of the Republic of Liars. It goes to prove the point that provoked the avalanche EXACTLY! The seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena have evidently matured. A climate of fear is being generated. The refusal to…
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Chimamanda Adichie: A slave in love with her chains, By Legendary Joe
A branch directly from the tree of Chinua, …not surprising. Chinua (Achebe) almost at the departure lounge parted this planetary realm with a brilliant work of art titled “There was a country”, an account of Civil War, where the Giant of Literature and author of one of the most celebrated works of art ‘Things Fall Apart’, forsook decorum and divorced…
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