By Muyiwa Adetiba I know many people who say the best years of their lives are the secondary  school years. I know some who will swear that their childhood years were the best years. Those who belong to the latter group remember the fierce love of parents who shielded them from every real and imaginary harm. […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba Living currently in an estate where quite a lot of construction work still goes on, I tend to see a bit of how the poor in the community operate. There are those who wake up with the crack of dawn to prepare food for those who have no pot let alone a […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba Once upon a time, Lebanon was a beautiful country. Such a beautiful country. The weather was as warm as the people. It soon became the pride of the Arabs in general and a hunting ground for the Arab rich in particular – I remember those houses on the hills in Beirut with […]

Trust the social media to make fun of everything. A foreigner was said to have asked a young Nigerian in the diaspora what ASUU meant since he often heard young Nigerians mention it. The young man said without hesitation that ASUU was the acronym for an organization which forces Nigerian Universities to close down constantly.

The new price of bread

And the Acting Governor choked. Publicly on national TV. He quickly turned away from the camera so watchers would not see eyes that had become laden with tears. He was trying to condole the family of a 41 year-old who was cut in the prime of life in Edo State for no apparent reason other than being a Priest.

Let’s go scriptural for a while since the issue of today has religious undertones. I am sure we’ve all heard the story of the Good Samaritan before. But for those who might not really know the story, it is the story of a traveler – most likely a foolhardy one – who was travelling alone along a dangerous road infested with robbers.

There was still light when I headed for Lagos Island from Surulere.

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.