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November 24, 2020

“The Labour of our Heroes Past:” But who truly are these heroes?

The aftermath of the #EndSARS protest has revealed some shocking news Nigerians are finding difficult to wrap their heads around. The latest shocker being a statement about former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), by a member of the British Parliament and Chair of the U.K. Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat. Gowon was... Read More

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September 2, 2017

The Thread: Can we stop invoking the name of Awo in vain?

Education in Nigeria has pretty much gone down the drain, the latest evidence of this being JAMB’s decision to lower its cutoff marks for entry into tertiary institutions to 120. No wonder then, Mr Odinkalu is drooling over days gone past. Check on it: ….when there was #FreeEducation in Western #Nigeria & govt cared to... Read More

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November 18, 2016

Opinion: Adamu Adamu and the call of history

by Philip Afaha One day, Nigerian History will join English language and Mathematics as compulsory subjects in our schools; the need for this sure inclusion is staring Nigeria in the face. While inaugurating the recent disarticulation of History from Social Studies in the school curriculum, the Honourable Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu had observed that... Read More

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November 2, 2016

Opinion: Mimiko | caught off guard

by Anthony Ademiluyi In 2003, the wily former President Olusegun Obasanjo was tired of being reminded by the hawks in the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he had no political base. He caught the awkward look of the Emperor who wore no clothes since he owed his 1999 electoral victory to the Kaduna... Read More

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If you visit Alade Market in Ikeja often, you should see this (PHOTOS)

Pictures really do speak a thousand words. The popular Alade Market in Allen, Ikeja is relocating and YNaija got it in pictures! The Market is relocating from Allen in Ikeja to Awolowo Way in the same Ikeja.

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Opinion: Why Nigerians must agree to disagree on the ‘Nigerian question’

By Ayodele Adio Just recently, former vice president Atiku Abubakar made bold proclamations on restructuring the Nigeria’s socio-political land scape. This time he wasn’t a lone wolf, other prominent Nigerians like Balarabe Musa and Dr Junaid Mohammed, just to mention but a few all seconded this fine line of thought. Let’s be frank, there is not... Read More

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Najeem Salaam: Who is standing against Nigeria’s oppressors?

I am bothered just as you are about the state of our nation. Fuel scarcity has shut down our nation, threatened freedom of movement, and the crisis of forex has taken away our purchasing power, while the conflict of perception between the rich and the poor appears wider. Obviously, any creative writer would be tempted... Read More

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November 25, 2015

Nigeria’s political elite attend HID Awolowo’s burial (See Photos)

Wife of late Obafemi Awolowo, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo is presently being buried at her hometown of Ikenne, Ogun state. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and a ton of the nation’s leading politicians from across several political parties, are in attendance. See below, photos from the burial, which is... Read More

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August 13, 2015

This activist says Yoruba politicians lack the vision Awolowo had

The President, Rights Monitoring Group, Olufemi Aduwo, has supported a claim that the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, was the Yoruba leader when he was alive. He lamented that after the death of Awolowo, the position of Yoruba leadership had been devalued by politicians in the region because of their lack of vision to build on the... Read More

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Opinion: Fashola, APC and LASU school fees hikes

by Sodiq Adewunmi Sanni This LASU fee hike is a daylight robbery on all Lagosian, it is a deliberate attempt to deny the masses the opportunity to join the upper class through their anti-masses policy, because a free and compulsory education at all level would have serve as succour for the poor masses “Education is... Read More

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January 2, 2014

Awolowo was greater than Mandela – Odia Ofeimun

by Hauwa Gambo The verdict is in. According to author and former private secretary to late politician, Obafemi Awolowo, the man many call “sage” is a greater man than global icon, Nelson Mandela. He made this statement in an interview with Sahara TV yesterday. “What needed to be done in South Africa, after apartheid was... Read More

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December 27, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: It’s time to move away from the Awo-Akintola political hangover

by Akin Osuntokun Equating Yoruba interest with membership of APC is self-serving and abusive. As far as Yoruba identity politics goes, there should be absolutely nothing that qualifies Tinubu as championing Yoruba cause and does not apply equally to Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State. My uncle, Akinjide Osuntokun, Emeritus Professor of History, has the... Read More

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November 8, 2013

Ochereome Nnanna: If APC wins, Tinubu will lose

by Ochereome Nnanna Tinubu will supply the Vice President, and his platform will begin to play the second fiddle. With power in the hands of an APC Northern president, it will be easier for Yoruba followers of Tinubu to play the “Akintola versus Awolowo” game on him, opting to go direct to the president for... Read More

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October 25, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Nigeria’s shift from Awo to federalism

by Akin Osuntokun The lesson to learn from the return of Al Mustapha is that Nigerians are spiteful of one another and care less for each other’s sensibilities. This behaviour is by no means peculiar to the fans of Al Mustapha; it is a generalised syndrome of been alienated from a country under which we... Read More

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October 19, 2013

Opinion: Is religion dividing the South west?

by Muyiwa Adetiba I also hear certain moves are going on to make sure ‘Christians are no longer swept aside in the scheme of things’ by people who are planning to massively campaign for any party that brings up Christian candidates in 2015. Last Tuesday’s Sallah would have been celebrated by all — Christians, Muslims... Read More

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October 18, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Where does the South west go from Awo?

by Akin Osuntokun Lagos State has the appearance an impregnable fortress for the APC but a lot is hanging on how the departure of Governor Babatunde Fashola is managed. And if I were contending against the APC in Lagos right now, I will not be far from Alaba market and other similarly colonised havens of... Read More

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October 17, 2013

Demola Rewaju: This distraction called ‘National Conference’ again

by Demola Rewaju Opposing something you believe in simply because it is coming from someone you don’t like shows an endless abyss of hypocrisy that deepens each time we think we’ve seen the worst from them and here, I am referring to the Bola Tinubu camp and their strange bedfellows in APC. The nomenclature hardly... Read More

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September 29, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Nigeria is changing, but we know not

by Simon Kolawole But I still meet many Yoruba nationalists who continue to glory and gloat over “our advantage in education”. Ogbeni, the rest of Nigeria is catching up with you while you are still glamorising Awolowo’s exploits of nearly 60 years ago! You’d better wake up to the new realities. Growing up, I was... Read More

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September 27, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Nuhu Ribadu’s choice as candidate from the ‘North’

by Akin Osuntokun To make myself clear I wholly subscribe to Chief Awolowo’s prescription of decentralised federalism as the optimal political configuration for Nigeria. I’m not confident that our status-quo quasi federalism will long endure but it is what we have now and it is the basis for the template of my analogy. The necessity... Read More

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September 20, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: The rebellion of the godsons

by Akin Osuntokun We have saved the big masquerade for the last encore. And in so doing I hope I’m not liable to the charge of speaking ill of the dead if I reasoned that the honeymoon between President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and his godfather ended prematurely and long before death did them apart My... Read More

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Opinion: How will Spike Lee tell his Awolowo story?

by Eniola Fawehinmi It was reported this week that the Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Spike Lee (Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing) has been approached by the Osun government to direct a film about the life of arguably one of the greatest Yoruba men that ever lived, Obafemi Awolowo. We’ll get to the surprising nature... Read More

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Chukwuma Soludo: Is APC really the game changer it claims to be?

by Chukwuma Soludo Unfortunately, the quality of political discourse has deteriorated greatly since the first and second republics. I can still recall what each of the political parties during the second republic stood for. Today, political parties have become mere platforms to grab power. “This is a new dawn for our generation. This is unusual.... Read More

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Opinion: Lessons on women from Awolowo

by Omozuwa Gabriel Osamwonyi Chief Awolowo was dedicated, disciplined and serene. In the single-mindedness of his devotion to the business of government and his political career, he was resolute and almost stern. One of Nigeria’s premium political philosopher and strategists, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was born on March 6, 1909. He would have enjoyed the spotlight... Read More

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October 21, 2012

Tunde Fagbenle: Achebe may be correct, but he defied logic

by Tunde Fagbenle It is doubtful if the great novelist of our time, Prof. Chinua Achebe, expected his latest book, “There Was A Country” to be anything more than its subtitle says: “A Personal History of Biafra.” In my own opinion, the old philosopher merely wanted (and needed) to unburden his mind before he left... Read More

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October 11, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: This might never be a country (YNaija Frontpage)

This is the power of folklore, especially on young and developing minds; and the difference between the truth and a notorious fact will only get smaller. We moved to the University of Lagos campus as I was about to start my secondary school education. The first thing my father did was to take me to... Read More

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October 11, 2012

Open Letter to Awoists: It is time to apologise to Ndigbo for that starvation policy

by Adewale Francis But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a kwashiorkor victim you’ll never like war to be waged. Terrible sight, in Enugu, in Port Harcourt, not many in Calabar, but mainly in Enugu and Port Harcourt. Then I enquired what happened to the food... Read More

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October 10, 2012

TICKER: Achebe hates Awo … and the Yoruba race – Adebanjo

A leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has faulted extracts from Prof. Chinua Achebe’s latest memoirs on the Nigerian Civil War accusing the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo as the initiator of the pogrom against the Igbo. The memoirs coming 42 years after the war, Adebanjo said, reinforced “Achebe’s pathological hatred for... Read More

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October 3, 2012

Achebe hits hard: “The genocidal Biafran war still haunts Nigeria”

by Chinua Achebe The persecution of the Igbos didn’t end with the Biafran conflict. Until the nation faces up to this, its mediocrity will continue. Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary... Read More

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