By Babafemi Ojudu WHEN MUHAMMADU Buhari and Professor Yemi Osinbajo assumed office as Nigeria’s President and Vice President in May 2015, their partnership evolved into one of the most stable and institutionally coherent relationships in Nigeria’s democratic history. Across two full terms, President Buhari repeatedly demonstrated—through word...
By Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line NIGERIAN ON Thursday night at the 4th African Youth Games in Luanda Angola used the Rope A Dope and the One inch punch tactics of legendary world boxing icon, Muhammed Ali to book a twin victory in the semifinals of the Games waiting at the door of […]
By Bola Bolawole CHRISTMAS IS here, but there is no “feferity” that usually heralds its coming. New Year itself is around the corner but there are no signs amongst the people. From 2023, only the super-rich celebrate here. The middle class has all but been wiped off, such that it is either you are rich […]
By Babafemi Ojudu I have read with amusement, the vituperations of some idle urchins on social media. Each time I write something critical about their hirer, they sneer: “He said he was retiring to The Farm. Where is his farm?” Others mock: “Don’t mind him; it’s just his house on Iworoko Road, Ado Ekiti.” They […]
By Babafemi Ojudu IN TIMES of national insecurity, words do not travel alone. They carry fear with them. They also carry hope, doubt, anger, reassurance, and sometimes humiliation. This is why communication during a security crisis is not a mere public relations exercise; it is an extension of governance itself and an essential part of nation...
By Babafemi Ojudu I read Ray Ekpu’s moving tribute to our departed brother, Dan Agbese, with a mixture of sadness and admiration. Sadness, because we have lost a fine mind and a gentleman of the craft. Admiration, because even in grief, Ray’s pen remains as evocative and commanding as ever. Ray has endured three personal […]
RECENTLY, THE Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II CFR marked a decade on the throne of his ancestors and celebrated it by conferring the Yeye Asiwaju Ile Oodua on the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu CON. The title was once held by the late Chief (Mrs) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, the wife […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE IT HAS been quite a while since I travelled in Ekiti state. I used to, on a weekly basis, between 2016 and 2018 when the then governor of the state, Peter Ayodele Fayose, extended an invitation to me. Taking off from Lagos (when the Lagos-Ibadan expressway was still a nightmare) and braving […]
By Owei Lakemfa The world witnessed an awakening, on May 8,1945. The nightmarish Second World War virtually ended. In Nigeria, the immediate fall-out of this was that freedom bells tolled for an implacable enemy of colonialism, Michael Aithokhaimen Omiunu Imoudu. He had been detained by “freedom loving” Britain for twenty-nine mon...
By Olukorede Yishau I DID not expect a game show to tug at something deep in me. Yet the first time I watched Masoyinbo on YouTube, I felt a small stirring. It came from the sound of Yoruba spoken without hesitation; spoken with a confidence I had not heard in years. The programme created by […]
