Father and son
Toxic masculinity’ is the new rage. It connotes everything supposedly wrong with Nigeria’s male folk. Coined in supposedly feminist circuits, an obsession with it at the homefront highlights the workings of the misandrist mind. Yea, most of Nigeria’s self-confessed feminists … Read the rest
Father figure
Nigeria suffers a crisis of the male gender. The lobotomised male was manhood’s dirty secret. It’s not much of a secret anymore, however.
Culturally benumbed to maleness, he loiters at ethical crossroads. He struggles “to be a man” while juggling … Read the rest
I don’t speak for Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo but on this occasion I wish to say with certainty that he, like many of us, cannot be happy with the 100 per cent increase in electricity tariff that is supposed to come … Read the rest
Sola Yomi-Ajayi
The coronavirus pandemic was not anticipated, it came like a bad storm in the middle of the night and took the world by surprise. The havoc that has so far been wreaked by the Covid-19 pandemic cuts across all sectors … Read the rest
There is a law called Dude’s Law of Duality. It states that of two possible events only the undesired one often occurs. The members of the National Working Committee of the ruling party, APC, led by the Chairman, Comrade Adams … Read the rest
Except something else occurs that grabs the headlines and dominates Nigerian social media, the big news of the past week would probably be the death of Senator Abiola Ajimobi and the political drama that it has generated. Senator Ajimobi served … Read the rest
Bola Tinubu
The political coalition between Muhammadu Buhari’s CPC and Bola Tinubu’s ACN has all but collapsed. There was nothing even remotely surprising about it. In previous columns, media interviews, and social media updates, I predicted that this would happen.
For example, … Read the rest
Black life matters
It is always thrilling to recognise how well-informed Nigerians at home are about events abroad. I often wake up in New York to the latest news in the United States from friends and family in the homeland.
That includes, lately, … Read the rest
President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Following insinuations that the recent developments in the All Progressives Congress were indications of a rift between the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has … Read the rest
Abiola Ajimobi
A former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, is dead.
The 70-year-old, who had been on a life support machine since last Friday at First Cardiology Hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos, after slipping into a coma following Coronavirus complications, gave up … Read the rest
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