By Muyiwa Adetiba We found ourselves experiencing another wave of lockdown in the country this week. It was not government this time that stopped people from going to work or performing their daily chores. This was in fact anti-government. Nigerians went out late last week to find largely peaceful protests on the streets that gradually […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba Would we treat the earth differently if we realised it was in anguish? Would our attitude be different if we knew we would be held accountable for our uses and abuses of the planet? Theseweresome of the questions that crossed my mind more than once during the enforced lockdown and more recently, […]

MUYIWA ADETIBA Those who watched this week’s Presidential debate would have had to listen hard to believe they were watching an American Presidential Debate and not a backwater debate from some backwater country. The absence of decorum was embarrassing. One of the two contestants came to fight dirty. He succeeded. The other wanted to rise […]

Muyiwa Adetiba Here is a story of a man with four wives and eighteen children. He was an educated man who studied law in the UK. When asked by friends who had a similar educational background but who were content with two, three children, he was quick to tell them he did not plan it […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba Change happens all the time Unfortunately, many of us are reluctant to embrace change. I am probably one of the worst in this regard. I will delay and make excuses until I run out of room and excuses. Electronic payment is one example of my lazy attitude towards change. Zoom is another […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba We all literally woke up last week to find the pump price increased – again. Almost every administration does this at least once during its tenure. The script remains the same while the actors vary. Government of the day increases price, the petrol stations rush to comply, a bargaining see-saw ensues between […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba We were next door neighbours physically but he was actually more than a neighbour. He was like a senior brother. When my then pregnant wife had labour pains around midnight, it was to his wife a matron, we turned. That was our first real contact. Until then, we merely exchanged polite greetings […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a grim and dire prediction concerning Africa at the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. She warned that Africa would be the most vulnerable of all the continents and expressed fear that health officials might end up picking dead bodies on the streets. […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba I had prepped myself for a two night vigil in order to watch the first two days of the US Democratic National Convention (DNC) knowing a continuous four day vigil would be difficult at my age. I know I could have recorded the speeches and watch them at my leisure. But there […]

A couple of years ago, a young lady working at the JAMB office stunned the nation when she said the JAMB money in her possession was swallowed by a snake. It was such an incredulous admission that the social media made a joke of it for quite a while. Even the regular, mainstream media made jocular comments.

Professor Bolaji Akinyemi epitomises both professional and  personal success. He is a pride to his generation which already has a constellation of competent, accomplished names. Prof was in the news last week doing us proud again by lending his experience and intellect to the affairs of the nation.

There are stark reminders all around us if we needed any, of the strange times we are in. Yesterday typified one of them.

On the eve Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua, the founding Managing Director of the defunct Democrat Newspaper died, Eric Teniola, my colleague and good friend, called to intimate me as he often does whenever any event of mutual concern or a momentous development occurs.

It was reported last week that our President wrote to the President of South Africa who is currently the Head of AU (African Union) on the debilitating effect of corruption in Africa.

The whole country was bursting with pride some thirty-five years ago when Professor Wole Soyinka became the first black man to win the Nobel Prize for literature. I was the Editor of Vanguard Newspapers then and was therefore in a vantage position to witness the buzz that swept across the country.