By Steve Osuji Conversation With General X UPON READING this column last week, an old acquaintance, a retired general of the Nigerian Army reached out to me. Let’s call him General X. We had known since 2004 when I was editing The NEW AGE newspaper, and he was still in service. My weekly column in […]
By Steve Osuji They didn’t know that we knew. There was a popular joke of the 90s christened: they didn’t know that we knew. It is actually best rendered in Yoruba. The title, which is in itself hilarious in its native state is: Eyin o mo pe awa mo. Let’s attempt a go at the […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE SOMEONE ACCOSTED me recently and asked the question: Why are you Yoruba always the troublers of Nigeria? And my mind immediately went to the same question King Ahab had asked Prophet Elijah in the Bible! “And it came to pass, when (King) Ahab saw (Prophet) Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art […]
