Some Nigerian lovers, who tied the knot on October 1 and 1960, talk about their dreams for Nigeria and why they chose the historic day for their weddings with TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN October 1 is our Independence Day too — Oyebanjo How did you meet your spouse? I am Iyiola Oyebanjo. We met at a church […] …
Sunday Features
Ogun abandoned channelisation turns to gully of deaths, swallows houses, farms
TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN writes about the pains of families of landlords in communities in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, who died after losing houses to erosion The gully that sliced the Owa Kurudu, Mayo Mayo and Logun communities in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, is akin to a smelly sore that festers by the second. Sadly, the erosion ravaging the […] …
We won’t be bothered if after death we discover God exists –Atheists
Some atheists in Nigeria talk about their conviction and the resentment they suffer from people who believe in God or gods with GBENGA ADENIJI and WILLIAMS BABALOLA An engineer, Alfred Ayodele, is one of the atheists in Nigeria. He said he started doubting the existence of God when he was in senior secondary school at […] …
Our precious kids’ dreams wasted, our hopes dashed –Parents of corpers who died during service
TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN writes about the miseries of parents whose children died while undergoing the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps scheme It’s close to two years that Mr. Wale Oladepo lost his doting corps member daughter but it seemed like it was an event of yesterday. The anguish is fresh like a new wound. He […] …
NSCDC men shot dead a woman on our way to bury my brother – Relative of slain Akure bricklayer
Kehinde Lasisi is the elder brother of Yakubu allegedly killed in a motor accident involving an officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, in Akure Ondo State. He talks about the incident with PETER DADA What is your relationship with the deceased? He was my younger brother from the same parents How old […] …
My three months in Kirikiri after SARS framed me for robbery was like hell — Guitarist
An instrumentalist, Temitope Adeyemi, who spent three months in Kirikiri Medium Prison after being falsely accused of robbery by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, shares his agonising experience with GBENGA ADENIJI What job do you do? I am an instrumentalist and I am from Osun State. [READ ALSO] Election rigging: NSA’s warning to security agencies […] …
SARS men ended my son’s dream two weeks to his Dubai trip — Dad of graduate shot to death in Osun
A hotelier, Alhaji Sabitu Nofiu is the father of 30-year-old Babatunde Nofiu killed by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Iwo, Osun State. He tells FEMI MAKINDE the anguish the incident has caused the family What do you want to say about your late son? I am the father of Babatunde Nofiu killed by […] …
Inside some Nigeria’s appalling public health centres
There are some dilapidated, ill-equipped public health centres across states in Nigeria where residents go to access healthcare for lack of better alternatives. SUNDAY PUNCH writes about the facilities One of the reasons given by the military junta when they took over power on December 31, 1983 was that the country’s hospitals had become mere […] …
I can’t get justice from ICPC; they think I’m psychotic – OAU sex-for-mark lady
Monica Osagie, the graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University, who leaked the alleged audio conversation between her and Professor Richard Akindele in February, tells SUNDAY ABORISADE that her life has been miserable since she exposed the sex-for-mark scandal Are you still in good terms with your boyfriend after the scandal? Yes, because I told him […] …
Funny, multiple levies councils using to milk small business owners
Many small scale business owners in the country are groaning under the weight of multiple levies from local government councils, writes GBENGA ADENIJI Plump, light-skinned pork seller identified only as Iya Risikat (pseudonym) frantically begged two men claiming to be council officials as they dragged her tray of fried pork meat from a tall, wooden […] …