THE PURVIEW

The Church and Society Department of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) and Caritas Nigeria have described the 2023 general election as the “worst in Nigeria’s history” despite having an improved electoral act, financial support from local and international partners, as well as massive support of citizens. In its report,...

  By Kayode Oladeji The contraption called Nigeria is a nation that has become popularized by its matchless feat in corruption. It's a nation that daily shimmers and glitters in mired prisms of controversies. Kilishi, on the other hand, is an Hausa delicacy made from meat often thinned and desiccated....

By Kayode Oladeji Sometime ago, while in Philadelphia, United States of America, precisely on Thursday, 17th May, 2007, I had gone to Barnes and Noble bookshop in the company of Bolaji Atanda, a friend, for a book on International Relations. Along the line from afar off, I saw a book...

By Kayode Oladeji "No event, no history", goes the popular cliche. Also, politicians and politics are members of the same family who may choose or refuse to conjoin or interrelate in order to be or not to be on the same page. This is simply because what is paramount and...

By Kayode Oladeji The contraption called Nigeria is a nation that has become popularized by its matchless feat in corruption. It's a nation that daily shimmers and glitters in mired prisms of controversies. Kilishi, on the other hand, is an Hausa delicacy made from meat often thinned and desiccated. Its...

Our perception about life, particularly as related to destiny and how we die, differs. Probably, this can better be captured by the philosophy of a former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a retired soldier who rose to the rank of a Brigadier General. A fatalist to the core,...

By Kayode Oladeji NB: On Monday, 22nd June, 2020, I wrote this piece. Shortly after, the bubble burst, especially with the mind-boggling revelations coming out since the arrest of Magu. I had planned uploading another article for the week but a friend strongly advised I repeat this. So do forgive...

By Kayode Oladeji Aside reading and being involved in some other stuffs, one of the things I have gained from this lockdown (though I still travel when it's necessary), is the opportunity to reflect the past. Expectedly, mostly of my recollections evoke a mixed bag of feelings; a potpourri if...

To a large extent, almost all religions in the world - be it Christianity, Islam, Syncretism, Animism, Buddhism or Hinduism, name it - there is the concord about the fact that God created mankind as Male and Female for a purpose. Truth, however, is that by nature, man is rebellious;...

The man Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, popularly called IBB, an acronym drawn from the first letters of his names, is unarguably a man of many faces. He means different things to different people at different times and in different places. With the sobriquet, Maradona or Evil Genius, IBB can conveniently be...