How not to honour the national honour, by Muyiwa Adetiba
We have known each other for more than four decades. Way back to the days when I and his expatriate wife worked for the same newspaper. He was always friendly, always polished. Then it turned out we had some mutual friends and that helped improve our social interactions. We must have exchanged phone numbers along […]
One Year After: What lessons did we learn from the #Endsars protest?
2020 was a special year for the world at large. It will always have its special place in the annals of history. It was the year a humbled, perplexed and befuddled world literally shut down when the rumour of a looming pandemic became a reality.
Beware of the little foxes
Otis Redding’s evergreen song, ‘Sitting on the dock of bay’ came severally to mind as I sat on the embankment of the lake at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan two weekends ago with a fishing rod in my hand.
Death offers us lessons, if only we can learn
By Muyiwa Adetiba I cannot claim to know Dr Obadiah Mailafia, the man whose sudden death shook the nation a couple of weeks ago. I met him only once when I was introduced to him at a Vanguard function by Frank Aigbogun, the Publisher of Business Day Newspaper. Yet, I cannot truly claim not to […]
As another Independence Day anniversary looms
My pre-Independence thoughts are hazy. Understandably so given my age at Independence. But I still recollect growing up with local police around.
Stemming hunger – and anger – in the land
How many times have we heard the argument that herding – meaning open grazing – is a way of life for a particular tribe in Nigeria?
