Like every lover of Yoruba traditional music, language and culture, I have of recent been inundated with requests to lend a voice to the newest raging fire in the Fuji music genre. Since the passage of Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Balogun, popularly known as Ayinde Barrister or Agbajelola Barusati, there have been longstanding tiffs on whom…
Mrs Ifeoluwani Funsho-Adeolu is the last child of a former Nigerian Ambassador to the Philippines, Yemi Farounbi. She talks about her father with TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN. Tell us more about your family? I am the last of four girls; my eldest sister lives in the United States, another lives in Canada, the third lives in Ibadan,…
Let me confess a moral anguish. Is it right to submit to a writer’s liberty and paint a depressing pen portrait of the torment and joy, pain and comfort, sorrow and happiness, success and failure of the many brave souls in the western Diaspora? In deciding to document the existential struggle and victory of Lammy,…
Nigeria’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, In a sharp critique of the recent US election, has expressed deep disappointment, describing the outcome as “a victory for crudity over refinement” that undermines America’s reputation as a global beacon of democracy and integrity. Akinyemi In an interview with ARISE NEWS on Wednesday, questioned the values…
Many Yoruba people voted for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar or the Labour Party candidate, Mr Peter Obi, during the 2023 general election. This despite knowing that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is their kinsman. It is on record that Tinubu lost Lagos State to…
(First published in 2013) It is just rubber! Rubber moulded and shaped in a way that it can bounce when kicked. It gave rise to English peasant sport in schools and neighbourhoods and later developed into a nation-wide sport. Football as it is widely known today, according to a definition, ‘refers to a number of…
She was the last person to enter the race to replace Rishi Sunak as the Conservative & Unionist Party leader in the UK, but alas she was the last person standing. As she takes on her new role as His Majesty loyal opposition leader, eyes will be on this young Yoruba girl who grew up…
Nigerians woke up on Tuesday 28 October 2024 to another petrol price hike, the fourth within 18 months under President Bola Tinubu’s administration with the outlets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) increasing the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol from 897 Naira to 1,025 Naira (1,600 Naira=1$USD). Before the…
Those who created the T-Pain label for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must be grinning from ear-to-ear for the phenomenal success they have recorded! Not that they said anything new or that Nigerians were not familiar with the phenomenon they graphically painted but because the Tinubu government allowed it to get under its skin. When you…
It was one American actor Robert Bernstein who, while counselling his colleagues, declared that you cannot aspire to be a leading artiste and at the same time be seeking to be a multi-millionaire. You have to choose one: The best teacher in the land or the best businessman! The trouble with most of us and…
