Category: Featured

John Ibekwe Buries His Mother

John Ibekwe Buries His Mother By: Deji Yesufu My friend John Ibekwe will be burying his mother, Elizabeth Ibekwe, next Friday, 23rd, April, 2021, at their family compound – that of Late Chief G. C. Ibekwe, Ofeahia Umuduru Egbeaguru, Onuimo...

/ April 15, 2021

TRANSITION: Prof. Benjamin Ekundayo OLUFEMI

Professor Benjamin Ekundayo OLUFEMI: TRANSITION With gratitude to God for a life well spent, and total submission to the will of the Almighty, we the family, announce the translation into glory of our beloved Father and Patriarch, Professor Benjamin Ekundayo...

/ April 13, 2021

Get the COVID-19 Vaccines; Stop the Conspiracy Theories – They are not True

Get the COVID-19 Vaccines; Stop the Conspiracy Theories - They are not True By: Deji Yesufu Today makes it one week exactly I took the COVID-19 Vaccines. I work in a health facility and we were given some prority when...

/ April 7, 2021

The President Is A Sick Man

The President Is A Sick Man: Buharis’ secret surgeries inside Oneida yacht By: Festus AdedayoThe President Is A Sick Man is the title of a book written by Philadelphia-born award-winning American journalist, Matthew Algeo. It is a chronology of the medical travails...

/ April 4, 2021

Mr. & Mrs. and the Joint Account

Mr. & Mrs. and the Joint Account By: Deji Yesufu So a tweet has been making the rounds on social media. It is one of those story tweets that are relayed in a chain. Someone has even gone further to...

/ March 29, 2021

Why Pombe Magufuli Can Never Grow on Nigerian Soil

Why Pombe Magufuli can never grow on Nigerian soil By: Festus Adedayo Statesman and late President of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, Leopold Sedar Senghor, through his philosophy of negritude, believed that Africa and its culture had manifest contributions they can...

/ March 28, 2021

Why the Coronavirus Has not Killed You

Why the Coronavirus Has not Killed You By: Deji Yesufu A few days ago I came across an article I wrote last year just about the time the lockdown was beginning to happen all around the world. The stories we...

/ March 25, 2021

Bombs on the Third Mainland Bridge

Bombs on the Third Mainland Bridge “I hope we do not get stuck in hold up again today. I must be home before my children go to bed. We may decide on an alternative route home if traffic on Third...

/ March 20, 2021

Hijab Crisis in ISI and the Loss of Missions

Hijab Crisis in ISI and the Loss of MissionsBy: Deji Yesufu (This article was first published in 2018. I publish it again in the light of the crisis over hijab in Kwara State)After a knock on the door of my...

/ March 18, 2021

Monguno’s Missing $1 billion: Fraud or Freudian slip?

Monguno’s Missing $1 billion: Fraud or Freudian slip?By: Festus AdedayoUnbeknown to many Nigerians who haven’t heard him speak, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Security Adviser (NSA) secretly admires self-styled Mr. Bombastic, Jamaican–American reggae musician, singer and Disc Jockey, Orville Richard Burrel, better...

/ March 14, 2021