I Taye Currency, the psychi-artiste from Foko, is presently in the eye of the storm. He has been the subject of scorn and attacks on social media and even in different places across Ibadan due Read More
Sometime in the last quarter of 2016 or thereabouts, I noticed that a website that had been the subject of controversial social media debates on budgeting and fiscal (mis)appropriation a year earlier was “down”. The Read More
By Oladehinde Olawoyin Amoo struggled to pick up broken parts of his Nissan car’s wing mirror, his demeanor lifeless. He mumbled a few words of complaint, threatening to seek justice. The 35-year-old commercial cab Read More
A PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Oladeinde Olawoyin, has been selected for the Climate Tracker’s Investigative Journalism Fellowship. Mr Oladeinde was selected for the fellowship alongside 11 other journalists from different parts of the African continent. Climate Read More
Adegoke Adelabu, the stormy petrel of Ibadan politics, died on the wrong side of the Yoruba ideological spectrum. In the linguistic parlance of those who control the pendulum of public discourse in the region, he Read More
Nothing speaks eloquently to the very foundation of Nigeria’s culture of graft, institutionalized anyhow-ness and complete retrogression like this viral story of how Adebayo Alao-Akala, as Oyo State governor, reportedly ‘changed’ the life of Read More
Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala is 70, or so I hear. The sudden beatification of the man by the ‘progressive’ wing of South West politics today is, for me, thesis-worthy. This was a man who, years ago, infamously “…Read More
As disingenuous and potentially dangerous as Governor Seyi Makinde’s appointment of NURTW kingpin Mukaila Auxiliary (Chair of the cheekily named ‘Park Management’) is, it is not the real trap before the governor. The real Read More
For almost a week in June 2011, residents of Iwo Road and environs could not step out of their houses. Those who dared to move around were ambushed by warring factions of the NURTW in Ibadan. Read More
When the discourse revolves around the genesis of Fuji sounds, especially with a focus on creed and ethnic identity, the pendulum swings naturally between two major social classes: Islam and Yoruba. When the discourse revolves Read More
