Category: Humanities

Tai Solarin, Mailafia, Lai Mohammed at a Reverie with George Orwell

Tai Solarin, Mailafia, Lai Mohammed at a reverie with George Orwell By: Festus Adedayo Any student of autocratic rule will tell you that free speech is always the first casualty of a budding despotism. So, watching the viral video of...

/ August 16, 2020

Death: Learning to Say the D Word

Death: Learning to Say the D Word By: Peju Simoyan (MD, MPH) In a recent essay published in Pulse, Dr. Charlotte Grinberg reflected on some of her experiences as a medical intern related to how doctors tend to communicate about...

/ August 15, 2020

Why the Colour of #RevolutionNow was not Arab Spring-red

Why the Colour of #RevolutionNow was not Arab Spring-red By: Festus Adedayo They all happened almost simultaneously, as if in a choreography. On February 9, 2011, a huge crowd of protesters had gathered at the Tahir Square in Cairo, Egypt....

/ August 10, 2020

Thank You Christ Apostolic Church

Thank You Christ Apostolic Church By: Deji Yesufu Somebody said to me once that preaching is only about 10% of what a pastor does. I am learning that lesson very quickly. One of the sisters in the gathering that we...

/ August 6, 2020

Explosions in Beirut, Lebanon (Video)

Explosions in Beirut, Lebanon Short videos of explosions rocking Beirut "The explosion is thought to have been caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored for six years without safety measures at the port, according to Lebanese President Michel Aoun."...

/ August 5, 2020

Banditry, Fulani Herdsmen Attack: Blood on the Nigerian Landscape

Banditry, Fulani Herdsmen Attack: Blood on the Nigerian Landscape By: Deji Yesufu Modupe Oyetoso owns a farm of about a hundred hectares in Lanlate town in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State. Modupe is a young Nigerian woman trying to...

/ July 31, 2020

Can Buhari Separate Two Chickens in a Fight?

Can Buhari separate two chickens in a fight? By: Festus Adedayo Hassan Ayariga, founder of the All People’s Congress (APC) of Ghana, in a recent viral video, publicly reminded Nigerians that their country had become a butt of jokes in...

/ July 26, 2020

Akpabio/Nunieh: Of Sex and Sleaze in High Places

Akpabio/Nunieh: Of sex and sleaze in high places By: Festus Adedayo Watchers of the flick of lurid but disgusting theatre in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) starring Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio and erstwhile Managing Director of the...

/ July 19, 2020

My Experience with Ibrahim Magu’s EFCC

My Experience with Ibrahim Magu’s EFCC By: Deji Yesufu On the 9th of May, 2020, a friend, Sarah Emordi, got in touch with me that she had been duped of a sum of N12,000 by a syndicate on the internet....

/ July 16, 2020

Magu, Maggots and Maga Dogs

Magu, Maggots and Maga Dogs By: Festus Adedayo Again, the system felled Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last week. It had always done that. Olusegun Obasanjo, the maiden president at inception of Nigeria’s...

/ July 12, 2020