Perspectives
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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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At daggers drawn, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Hopes for the de-escalation of tension that arose from the declaration of All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 25 February presidential election dimmed on Wednesday as the federal government and Peter Obi of the Labour Party were at daggers drawn over the former’s allegation that the latter’s activities since the declaration of the poll’s results were…
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Prof Nnenna Oti: How Buhari loves them
There’s a striking similitude between what happened in the gubernatorial election in Ekiti State in 2009, and Abia State in 2023. And two women were at the center of it all, talking Christianity and conscience. But the denouement of the events were in sharp contrast. Engineer Segun Oni of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Dr Kayode Fayemi of the…
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Know your rights as a passenger on a flight in Nigeria, By Bologi Jimada
If you are a frequent Flyer, be it domestic or international, chances are you have endured very long and frustrating delays and cancellations at one time or the other. Some times you feel so helpless because you no longer have enough funds for an alternate airline or a hotel especially after the airline staff have quietly disappeared for the night.…
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Who does the cap fit? By Adenrele Adekoya
Stuck in the labyrinths of thoughts about who should occupy which position in the coming administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President-elect especially the coveted position of Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, the reverberating effects of the late Reggae Maestro, Robert Nesta Marley’s instructive song: “Who the Cap fits, let him wear it” sonorously courted my drinking lobes (ears). I was immediately…
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Eight things to know about Ebenezer Obey at 81, By Gani Kayode Balogun
1. Ebenezer Olasupo Remilekun Aremu Fabiyi was born 80 years ago at Idogo to Owu egba parents. He was a child born after two decades of barrenness, hence his name Remilekun. 2. He was under the titulage of the immortal Fatai Rolling Dollars of ‘won kere si number wa’ fame and his Federal Rhythm Brothers.. He formed his band ,…
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