GIVING MENTAL ILLNESS A BAD NAMEBy Femi Olugbile In the early hours of the 13th of June 2023, in Nottingham, England, a 32 year old man named Valdo Calocone,...
GIVING MENTAL ILLNESS A BAD NAMEBy Femi Olugbile In the early hours of the 13th of June 2023, in Nottingham, England, a 32 year old man named Valdo Calocone,...
REMEMBERING ADEJUMOKE LEWIS – ‘Oloja of Oja’ By Femi Olugbile A great friend of this author died on December 23rd, 2023, and was buried last week. Everybody knew him...
AS Dr SONNY KUKU BECOMES OGBENI OJABy Femi Olugbile How time flies.It seems not so many years ago when you joined others in Ijebu Ode to celebrate the appointment...
THE STORY OF UGOBy Femi Olugbile It is early days yet in the new year, but already there is a queue of weighty subjects waiting to be exercised in...
SOUTH AFRICA, THE MANDELA MANTLE, AND THE CASE OF GENOCIDE IN GAZA By Femi Olugbile This newspaper column has had a long and fraught relationship with South Africa over...
The Governor and the Corporal An interesting confrontation took place on a Lagos street the other day. The Governor of Lagos accosted a man riding in the wrong direction...
SUDAN – ‘The land of the Blacks’, and its many troublesBy Femi Olugbile The name Sudan derives from the Arabic ‘bilad as sudan’, which translates as ‘The Land of...
2023 – looking back, looking forward By Femi Olugbile In a few days, it will be the end of the year 2023.It has been a year replete with stories,...
A RUMBLING, AND A NEW BEGINNING IN THE HOUSE OF GOD By Femi Olugbile (an excerpt from a forthcoming book)Lagos. Sunday, October 13th, 1901.The mild October breeze blew in...
The 16-day Battle Against Gender Inequity By Femi Olugbile Recently the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), in collaboration with the Women’s Optimum Development Foundation (WODEF), the Women...
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