Celebrity Columnists

Bad news again streamed out of the Nigerian Olympic team at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. It was not a surprise to many and replayed a tune that tires Nigerians out from hearing. The Nigerian Olympic story has been one of a few pleasant…

In the Preface to my book entitled Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of an Apala Legend, (2020) I equated stardom and zenith of social ladder with the purport of a Yoruba wise-saying which says, epo ni mo ru, oniyangi, ma ba t’emi je. This…

Sometimes, the writer could wear the apparel of Nostradamus. In a May 2, 2021 piece I entitled, Buni and APC’S 40 years in power grandstanding, I sounded a note of warning that unless Yobe State Governor and All Progressives Congress (APC’s)…

It was just a month ago. On Wednesday, June 30, 2021, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s biggest copyright collective management organization, had rolled out the red carpet at the magnificent COSON House in Ikeja to honour the…

There are two unfolding scenarios in the on-going trial of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (MNK). One is, perhaps, the unintended elevation of the IPOB leader to a cult status by the government. The other…