Category: Humanities
Mali: Endangering Africa’s Democracies
Mali: Endangering Africa’s Democracies By: Deji Yesufu Some days ago news filtered in that the government of the nation of Mali had been ousted by renegade soldiers. As we scrambled around for information to authenticate the situation on ground in...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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."...
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...
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...
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...
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....