What Fulani elites and white supremacists seem to have in common

Promoters of poverty

The promoters of violence

By Muyiwa Adetiba The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a favourite haunting place for our brothers and sisters from the North and I can understand why. It has virtually everything our erstwhile colonial master, the UK has and then some. In addition to having the banks, the shopping malls, the tourist attractions, the international connections […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba Once you have killed a snake or a rat or even a cockroach, you dispose of the remains as quickly as possible. Killing even a fly is an extremely distasteful task for most people. But it is sometimes a necessary task if you want to rid your environment of flies and rodents. […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba Journalists are political animals and when two or three of them are gathered together under whatever guise, politics and the state of the nation cannot be far from their conversations. I had a late breakfast with some veteran journalists two weeks ago. They were people I had known for over four decades […]

Travelling back in time is a habit that has been with me for ages. It is becoming a habit that seems to be recurring with more frequency these days.

By Muyiwa Adetiba I don’t know about you, but I cringe anytime I see my fellow humans ferret the dustbins like animals. I cringe at the filth. I cringe at the dehumanisation. I cringe at the desperation. They start early and go on until past dusk, looking for anything of value. Except that very few […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba As those who have been on a religious pilgrimage to Israel would have noticed, the journey to Calgary, the place our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified from where he was ‘sentenced’ to death is a short one. It is a busy route for the most part of the year as pilgrims who […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba The APC Convention ran its course last week. For weeks, it looked as if it was not going to hold. There were opinions in its favour and opinions against it. There were cases in court for and against it. There were enemies within and enemies without. The party’s fault lines became more […]

It was midday on Sunday; just after the 10am service. A lady was trying to make a lunch appointment with her daughter and her prospective husband. But first, she needed to buy some fruits at the open Sunday market near her church. She was still trying to pack well when she heard a thud and […]

There is this story of a child who was experiencing power failure for the first time in his young life. He was then the only child in a young family. His parents had just relocated home after the proverbial pursuit of the golden fleece and were staying with another young family until they could find […]

A video of a young girl dancing on a thick, lush carpet of crisp Naira notes went viral recently. She was barely in her teens. She was also covered in a confetti of new currency notes by adults who danced around her.

By Muyiwa Adetiba The Jackson Five exploded into the world’s musical consciousness some sixty years ago. It was a family band of five brothers. Chubby cheeked and ‘petit’, Michael was the youngest and the most endearing. He was also the most prodigious. It was no surprise that he became the most enduring. Their father Joe […]

Alhaji Abdulkadir was the Managing Director of NIDB in 1985 when then-President Babangida made him head a committee on IMF following the heated national debate on whether Nigeria should go the IMF route or not. I had a good relationship with him and visited his office from time to time – often without an appointment – to pick his brains on national issues.