Globally, women are perceived as cynosure of interest in discuss. Poets, philosophers, musicians, creative artists, even scientists, have often used female gender as object of audience attention. Much as Picasso did a famous and impressive work of ‘Monalisa’ including other master artists, dignity of women has been a center of attraction.

By Ogaga Ifowodo By every standard, even in Nigeria  where new standards are set every day in our never ending quest to shock and awe the world with impunity, the figures reeled out against former National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) would boggle any mind. According to Femi Adesina, special adviser to President Buhari […]

Today I go down memory lane to borrow the title of the musical album released over 30 years ago by Sonny Okosun.

The “banality of evil” is a concept created by Hannah Arendt, a Jewish political theorist who escaped Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The idea refers to the ease with which ordinary people can be culpable of the most evil, horrendous things if they believe, or are persuaded by a higher authority that their actions are either justified or a part of their duty.

I listened to a radio presenter two weeks ago playing the album Kollington Ayinla released after armed robbers snatched his Volvo car in the late ’70s.After every two lines the Fuji maestro would release a high-voltage curse: “tiyin buru o”(yours has spoilt).The presenter allowed Kollington to download this curse about five times and asked: “Is it not Volvo Alhaji said they stole from him?”