Wasiu Ayinde, Bobrisky and the Nigerian Army (2), By Tunde Odesola

In this day and age of social media, journalism, one of the few fearless professions, treats soft news with almost the same attention it treats hard news. According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, hard news refers to stories that are usually timely, important and consequential, such as politics, international affairs and […]

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Wasiu Ayinde, Bobrisky and the Nigerian Army (1), By Tunde Odesola

Life is a peaceful war. It’s a funny dirge. Life is the mystery of the eyeball and the proverbial pointed stick the Yoruba call ‘igi ganganran’. Igi ganganran, the pointed stick, aims to rupture the pupil, but a blink and the eye is saved from eternal darkness by the eyelids. Life could be a close shave, […]

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Jimi Solanke, Wasiu Ayinde and the cartoon called Nigeria, By Tunde Odesola

Aníkúlápó is the man who bears death in a pouch, not Jimi Solanke. Solanke knew a braggadocious name couldn’t stop death. So, when death came calling, Solanke followed it without fear. But Solanke wasn’t afraid of death, he was afraid of life – this he told me many years ago at the backstage of the […]

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Nigerians angry, hungry, suffering, insecurity rising, naira worthless ―Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde sings against Tinubu

Nigerian Fuji singer, Wasiu Ayinde, popularly known as KWAM 1, has joined other Nigerians to cry out over the increased cost of living and rising insecurity in the country. KWAM 1, is the de facto official top campaign musician who plays at campaign rallies for the president’s political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). In […]

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