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Miffed about the current state of affairs in Nigeria, the late Fela Anikulapo, from the land of the dead, looks back and picks the CD containing his song, Teacher don’t teach me Nonsense, where he theorised about the craziness in the…

Oyo State is currently the only PDP governed state in the South West Nigeria since 2019 and right from the beginning of Gov. Makinde’s administration, the broom party, who lost the last gubernatorial election due to many factors including…

From its creation in 1976 to date, Oyo has passed through many developmental spheres as a subset of the Nigerian state. From economic to political, to infrastructure, to social, to cultural stages, the State has carved a niche for itself…

Gradually, the curtains are being drawn on the era of the late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the Alaafin of Oyo who left us in a thunderbolt manner. The eighth day inter-religious prayers were held yesterday. The next questions that will be asked…

As far back as 1999, when what we have in Lagos today were only dreams in the minds of visionaries, Tinubu took over like that proverbial Octopus with all its hands in all the jars, weaving Lagos State from pit to the palace it is today.…

Visionary leaders are hard to come by and when the world sees one, it is also difficult to accept the change he projects. That has been the lots of many visioners the world has produced, and it is certain to be the fate of many others still…

"Every generation out of relative obscurity discovers its mission, fulfills it or betrays it." - Frantz Fanon. Three decades ago there was a movement that shook all known socio-political foundation in our nation's historicity. It was a…

In the sociology of death and dying, only those around when death knocks can imagine the pain, the struggle and desire of the deceased to stay alive. “I’m in the train. I have been shot. Please pray for me” was the last public message by…

Prior to the July 11, 2007, coordinated bombing of commuter trains in India’s largest city of Mumbai, Indians, like Nigerians, were wrapped in the shawls of their innocence and naivety. On that day, terrorists violently yanked the terror…

I write this text with tears in my eyes. I didn’t know a day will come when my beloved country will be a valley of the shadow of death. A country where we now live with perpetual fear of been attacked anytime, any day and anywhere, no place…