Towards healing a nation’s 60 yr old wound, by Muyiwa Adetiba
This is the sixtieth year – to the week – of the July 1966 coup that has been infamously regarded as a counter-coup. A coup thatunfortunately marked the degeneration of a Nigeria that our fore fathers strove for and tried to build.A coup that subsequently led to a thirty- month Civil War which still leaves a lingering […]
Why you must make your bed in the morning, by Muyiwa Adetiba
A classmate and friend left our shores for America over five decades ago. He sees himself more as an American now and rightly so. America has done well by him and he has done well by America. Besides, he hasn’t been home more than a couple of times in the fifty-odd years he has been […]
Our youths now kidnap dogs for ransom – And for food, by Muyiwa Adetiba
They are happiest wherever there is a crowd and preferably activities – at construction sites where they help in lifting the heavy stuff; at event and worship centers where they help with parking cars; at the markets when you need a helping hand. They can come in handy during disasters as well. They are, for […]
August Protest: The morning after, by Muyiwa Adetiba
It was not a pretty sight. A facility specifically meant for youths was being destroyed before our eyes by the same youths in Kano. Computers were carted away by youths who probably don’t know how to use a computer – they probably have never even touched one before. Swivel chairs were carried by those who […]
Of age, legacy and passing the torch, by Muyiwa Adetiba
You feel indestructible when young. It was fairly normal in my youthful days – I am sure it still happens today- for us to leave the office for a night club or leave a nightclub for office. Journalism, with its flexible working conditions, blurred the lines demarcating work and leisure even further. Smoking and drinking […]
Birthdays as a sign of our mortality, by Muyiwa Adetiba
The last two weeks have witnessed landmark birthday celebrations by some of my favourite people. Arit Tunde-Imoyo turned 70 and she decided on a different celebratory route from a decade ago when a few of us found ourselves in Florida to mark her sixtieth. Then, it was a small, intimate affair which included spending an […]
