(Published in The PUNCH on Monday, April 12, 2021) As a herdsman, ‘yowwa’ is the likeliest gratifying word to escape from the tight-lipped Nigerian President and...
By Lai Olurode The passing away of Chief Yinka Odumakin was a great loss to this country. He was committed to a great but restructured Nigeria....
I will say this just once. The biggest threat to the peace and stability of Nigeria today is the plan by some hardliners in the Federal...
By Bisi Kazeem The attention of the Federal Road Safety Corps has been drawn to a fabricated and fake statement credited to the Secretary to the...
By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH on Monday, March 22, 2021) Dear Hajiya, With gratitude to God for a vacation well spent, I, Babatunde Odesola,...
It’s often intriguing to hear eminent and well appointed Nigerians talk about disintegration, destabilization and outright war, as if it’s a picnic. War? Not a tea...
On January 9, 2021, operatives of Amotekun – the quasi-state police outfit of south-western Nigeria – went to Aiyete in Ibarapa LGA, Oyo state, on a...
By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH on Monday, February 15, 2021) History, like Ekiti’s Ikogosi springs of warm and cold fountains, embodies profundities. Either for...
By Wole Soyinka The most distressful aspect of my recent interaction with cows and herders is that it has created a most unwanted distraction from the...