I probably knew about Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN, from the time I could recognise people’s faces. But, I definitely knew him well vicariously. He was a contemporary of my father, Hon. Justice Bola Babalakin Read More
“Alhaji was known and famous in his later years for his ‘Bashorun Rock Series of intellectual interventions’ which attracted some of the best brains in Nigeria to his house at Orita Bashorun, Ibadan members who Read More
I was in my house this evening (23/05/2020), about to take my dinner, consisting of two wraps of eko (agidi) and vegetable soup. The vegetable was freshly plucked, earlier in the evening, from the small garden Read More
The Guardian UK once reported the story of Mohamed Abdallah, a Darfurian refugee, in Libya. Mohamed left Darfur in 2006 for what is now South Sudan after war in his country left his village in Read More
What comes to my mind when I learned about the demise of Honorable Kehinde Ayoola was that Oyo State and Yoruba nation at large had lost a great thinker, leader and activist without bitterness. I Read More
In the political history of Oyo State, by extension Nigeria, on June 10, 2019, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin made history as one of the youngest Speaker of Oyo state after emerging the head of the parliament at 32. Ever Read More
The past few weeks have seen Oyo state governor at the receiving end of a lot of lashings both from within his administration and outside the walls of the government house. The fires are coming Read More
Continued from Monday In mapping out an effective delivery of online education , the Federal Ministry of Education may need to take a look at some of the steps taken by other countries in the Southern Read More
We glanced at each other from where we sat before the programme started. I eventually got up to greet him. He responded with a smile and asked, “you are Wole Street Journal, right?” My reply Read More
In one of my intellectual stocktaking, I stumbled on the Winter/Spring 2002 issue of CNN Traveller. In the illuminating edition which appositely captured various events around the world at the time in not more than 128 Read More
