Opinion

I’m sitting here and remembering how Mr Dalung, Nigerian sports minister and Mrs Yetunde Onanuga travelled to watch Anthony Joshua’s demolition of Takam in the tenth round. They did not fail to relay a message of how the government and people of Nigeria were proud of AJ. When the heavyweight boxer visited Nigeria, the then…

Why are we so careless with our own lives in Southwest Nigeria? Do we imagine that some magical solution will arrive from Abuja, Akure, Osogbo, Ado-Ekiti, or Abeokuta to protect us from the terrorists attacking our communities? Do we believe that the bandits who recently ravaged villages have simply disappeared? Do we think they will…

Back to the issue of government involving itself in religious affairs. Kilo dun bi arun iba! For a government to rule well, it must be an octopus with its tentacles in everything. If it could be planned well, the governors and president should be made to head all the religious bodies. We may then have,…

I utterly fail to understand the problem of my people. So, Nigeria’s return to the old national anthem is now a hard nut to crack for us. We have failed to see the inherent values in the change. The legislators saw them, that’s why the bill was passed in arguably a record time. The executives…

I am not necessarily a gourmet. And this could be because I am no gourmand. Something tells me it’s because I eat sparingly. In fact, I’m not the best of customers to food sellers. That’s why I always wonder when people say they are going to have a seven course meal. I know they may…

That Ramon Adedoyin has been sentenced to death is no news. However, I’m more concerned about what he and his fellow felons had intended using the corpse for. I learn, he is a medical doctor. Could he have intended using the body or the vital organs for an insane experiment? Did he need the corpse…