Why APC is likely to lose Lagos in the 2015 election, By Femi Aribisala
Just think how many votes can be harvested in Lagos by telling commuters an incoming PDP government will allow okadas back on the roads. (more…)
80 canon salutes to Soyinka, African god of literature, By Tunji Ariyomo
“He communicated in the contemporary language of his time and with such suaveness that both awe and appeal.” (more…)
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Birthday sympathies for Wole Soyinka, By Tolu Ogunlesi
“Listen to Fela’s songs from the late 1970s and you’d be forgiven for thinking they were composed in the 21st century.” “I’m getting a little bit bored with this Sisyphean struggle. I’m not exhausted; I can drop down dead tomorrow, that’s irrelevant, I want be around to witness the event. At the…
Ending the National Conference, Equity, the Numbers and the Zones, By Jibrin Ibrahim
The National Conference is coming to an end and through it, we know at the end what we knew at the beginning. It was necessary to have the National Conference so that we can chat but that the discussions will take us nowhere. My position has always been that just…
Making Sense of What We Say, By Ifeanyi Uddin
When plans to convene another talkfest around the seminal questions hemming in our quest for national cohesion were bruited about recently, my initial reaction was one of irritation. At the minimum, any such dialogue makes sense in response to a representation, accountability, or democracy deficit. Within this reading, a national…
EDITORIAL: Soyinka at 80: Fully Humanized, Totally Disalienated
The Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, who turns 80 today, has garnered a great deal of honour in his active life as a man of letters and a statesman. Since the early 1960s when he stepped into the world of action, writing plays, poems and essays on the order of genius…
Below The Poverty Line, Sunday Ogidigbo
The poverty line in Nigeria is no longer imaginary. Everywhere you turn, you can see the yawning gulf of divide between the rich and the poor. The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer, no thanks to the scourge of greed that pervades the land among the ruling…
Ayo Mi, The One That Brings Me Joy, By Femi Fani-Kayode
Ayo mi: the one that brings me joy. The one that gives me strength and offers me hope. The one that stood with me before my accusers and laughed them to scorn. The one that renews my youth, that makes me smile and that expands the horizons of my inner-most…
Article of Faith: Pastors are Jesus Killers, By Femi Aribisala
It is these pastors that decided to sacrifice Jesus. And their descendants are the pastors currently running our churches. Jesus is our redeemer. But from whom exactly does he redeem us? Does it make sense to presume he redeems us from God? Some terrorists kidnapped a rich man’s children and…
Leadership and Social Intelligence, By Taiwo Odukoya
If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men (Romans 12:18) "The best mechanic in a factory may fail as a foreman for a lack of social intelligence." It was with these words, and others like it, Edward Thorndike introduced the phrase Social Intelligence…
