Category: Humanities
What is Edmund Obilo Doing?
What is Edmund Obilo Doing? By: Deji Yesufu Thanks to the holidays, and Christmas, I have been forced out of solitude. The Seyi Makinde government has made driving a lot easier in central Ibadan, having embarked on a massive road...
Dele Farotimi: How a Failed Judiciary Triggered the Nigerian Civil War
Dele Farotimi: How a Failed Judiciary Triggered the Nigerian Civil War By: Deji Yesufu Obafemi Awolowo explains in his writing that British rule was not entirely negative. Before the coming of the white man, for instance, most of Yoruba land...
Fisayo Soyombo: Dear President Tinubu
Fisayo Soyombo: Dear President Tinubu By: Deji Yesufu My name is Deji Yesufu. I am a Christian missionary and a die-hard lover of Nigeria. Besides who I am and what I do, I have had opportunities to leave this country....
Marital Conflicts
Marital Conflicts By: Deji Yesufu Femi Morgan published a note on Facebook, where he describes a conflict between a man and his wife. In the note, Morgan narrates overhearing his neighbors arguing, with their young son trying to mediate the...
JESUS IS KING
Jesus is King! By: Deji Yesufu One of the blessings of planting Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan is having to learn and sing hymns with God’s people. There is this one that opens this way: Rejoice the Lord is King...
The Househelp and the Rat Poison
The Househelp and the Rat Poison By: Deji Yesufu I saw a video online that is again reporting a house-help poisoning the meal that a family was supposed to eat. This would be the third or fourth video of such...
Thoughts on Death and Dying
Thoughts on Death and Dying By: Deji Yesufu In February 2024, I did a video titled “A WhatsApp Group of Death”. I had lost a relative and I remember that she had told me before her death that she belonged...
When Religion Fails the State
When Religion Fails the State By: Deji Yesufu The political crisis in Nigeria during her first republic was based fundamentally on differences in ideological makeup between the leading political figures in Nigeria. The greater divide existed between Ahmadu Bello, the...
David Oyedepo at 70: What is Nonsensical About This?
David Oyedepo at 70: What is Nonsensical About This? By: Deji Yesufu I could make a living from trolling David Oyedepo, the overall Bishop of Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria. I choose not to because Christian ministry is not always about criticising...
Obafemi Awolowo’s Twenty Pounds to Biafra
Obafemi Awolowo’s Twenty Pounds to Biafra By: Deji Yesufu A few weeks ago, a Canadian-Nigerian woman, by the name of Amaka Sonnberger, a 46-year-old lady, was seen on social media inciting people of Igbo extraction against Yoruba and Benin people....