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Fan clubs of the late Fuji music icon, Dr Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, will be reconvening in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital this year for their regular music

Away from the Bala-blus, All Progressive Congress (APC’s) festival of incoherences – literal and figurative – the fatal celebration and justification of

Share Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US, Akinwumi Ogundiran, is the author of ‘The Yoruba: A New History.’ The remarkable book, which was published in the last quarter of 2020 by Indiana University Press, provides a new way and style for imagining and writing Yoruba history. The academic shares some findings that challenge extant beliefs and knowledge in this e-conversation about the book. Excerpts:   CONGRATS on the publication of this seminal and interesting work titled ‘The Yoruba:...

Tinubu, Run! Please, Run!, By Festus Adedayo I think Tinubu should not to take a plunge into the potentially destructive brackish waters of Nigeria’s presidential contest. This is because, it will make either an MKO Abiola or Umaru Yar’Adua of him. Both paths are ruinous… So, Tinubu, please run, run from the SWAGA gang. What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in  The Feast of the Goat that, “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first i...

ON THE GO ABCON: 26 BDC operators arrested over ‘money laundering, terrorism financing’ The Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) says 26 members have been arrested by security operatives, over alleged unlawful foreign exchange (FX) transactions.Advertisement Aminu Gwadabe, president of... Makinde: For blocking governance loopholes, I’ve received threats over 2023 ambition Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, says he has received threats over the forthcoming 2023 governorship election in the state, because he has blocked loopholes in the system.Adverti...