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Adams made the call in a letter he wrote to the Governor, titled: "RELIGIOUS FANATISM: CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER IN ILORIN."
By Julius Ogunro Ilorin is increasingly becoming the scene of an epic clash between two religious traditions: Islam and African Traditional Religion. Three recent incidents are markers of this culture war and a frightening dimension of the continuous fragmentation of Nigerian society. The first incident involves the Isese priestess, Yeye Ajesikemi Olokun Omolara Olatunji, who
Ilorin is increasingly becoming the scene of an epic clash between two religious traditions: Islam and African Traditional Religion.
What is striking is the way we consider deaths and suffering that don’t personally affect us. We treat these as statistics.
I was born in Maroko, a now demolished Lagos seaside slum, which has metamorphosed into posh Lekki. Although Maroko was a medley of various Nigerian ethnicities, Yoruba was its primary language and culture. All Maroko children spoke Yoruba, regardless of ethnic origin. Yoruba worldview and ethos were, therefore, the first cultural values I learned. Reflecting