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“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…

Ezinne 7 years

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.…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

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…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

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…

Adebayo Emuleomo 8 years

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! Traders moving from Alade Market The Market is relocating…

Op-Ed Editor 8 years

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…

Op-Ed Editor 8 years

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…

Janeth J 8 years

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,…

Janeth J 9 years

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…

10 years

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…

10 years

Femi Aribisala: Nigeria cannot survive without the Igbos

by Femi Aribisala Even the bitterest adversaries of the Igbo cannot but admit that, as a people, they are very resourceful and ingenious. Indeed, this has often been the cause…

10 years

Opinion: Obafemi Awolowo, please we need you back

by Olusina Akeredolu It is an irony of time therefore that the same Tinubu was one of the APC leaders who now went to Obasanjo to court and persuade him…

10 years

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…

10 years

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…

10 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

11 years

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…

12 years

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…

12 years

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…

12 years

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…

12 years

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…

12 years

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,…

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