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By abiodun KOMOLAFE The charade of Nigeria is never-ending! Only recently, one of Nigeria’s best-known cross-dressers, Idris Okuneye, alias Bobrisky, was arrested on charges of abusing banknotes. He was later convicted and…

By Funmilola Olarewaju In the past few days, videos of market women leaders, aka Iyalojas, in Ekiti State moderating the prices of goods in the markets within their jurisdictions have been trending. According to reliable information, the…

By Festus Adedayo Native Brazilians arrest monkeys with what is called Cumbuca. They make a hole in a gourd that is big enough to accommodate the hand of a monkey. The gourd is then affixed to the ground of the place monkeys…

By Festus Adedayo In a world where virtually every news item that emanates from Nigeria is of depressing cases of bloodshed, banditry, government’s sleazy insensitivity and all-what-ought-nots, when news about Nigerians who go…

By Festus Adedayo Whether real or imagined, none of the metonyms for “Lagos boy” is complimentary. The “Lagos boy” moniker once came up in the late 1980s. Commodore Olabode George, then Military Governor of Ondo State, had just…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE In the course of the week, I had cause to be at the Akure, Ondo State-home of the Afenifere Leader, Reuben Fasoranti, and I saw modesty in its raw form. From Fasoranti’s symbolic bungalow which has played…

By Festus Adedayo In the 19th century and even before, Bobriskys were lynched like common criminals. Their sin was their considered unusual sexuality. Until then, homosexual activities were classified as "unnatural crime…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE When sometime in 2008, the late Yinka Odumakin invited me to his 23, Sylvia Crescent, Anthony Village-office in Lagos, little did I know that a big surprise was waiting for me. A fine gentleman with a…

ʙʏ: ᴄᴏᴍʀᴀᴅᴇ ᴠɪᴄᴛᴏʀ ᴏᴊᴇɪ ᴘᴏᴘᴜʟᴀʀʟʏ ᴄᴀʟʟᴇᴅ ᴡᴏɴɢ ʙᴏx, ʟᴇᴀᴅ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪsᴛ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜɴɢ ɴɪɢᴇʀɪᴀɴ ʀɪɢʜᴛs ᴏʀɢᴀɴɪᴢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ. ɪɴ ᴛɪᴍᴇs ᴏғ ᴛᴜʀᴍᴏɪʟ ᴀɴᴅ ᴜᴘʜᴇᴀᴠᴀʟ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴏғ ᴛʀᴜᴛʜ ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇs ᴀs ᴀ ʙᴇᴀᴄᴏɴ ᴏғ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ᴀᴍɪᴅsᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴏs. ᴀs ʀᴀᴅɪᴄᴀʟ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ sᴛɪʀ…

By Festus Adedayo “I know the arithmetic of the budget and the numbers that I brought to the National Assembly, and I know what numbers came back… Those who are talking about malicious embellishment in the budget; they did not…