Category: Columnist

How Healthy Are You? The Drug Called Excess Sugar

By Halima Imam

We are often told that sugar is bad for our body. It is even said to be a ‘body builder’ for the bacteria that drive holes in our teeth. Well, how bad is it anyways? Put just a tiny pinch in our tea or leave it out altogether? Sugar, the numerous sweets, colorless, water soluble compounds present in the sap of seed plants and the milk of mammals make up the simplest group of carbohydrates. The most common sugar is sucrose, a crystalline tabletop and industrial sweetener used in foods…

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*Between Et Tu and Ètùtù* All For Tinubu’s Judases

Sam Omatseye

By Sam Omatseye Jan 24, 2022 ‘To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved,” George MacDonald.’ Some commentaries in the past two weeks about why some Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s associates are looking the other way have reminded me of childhood. As a little boy, my father Moses was lost in the ecstasy of My Early life, Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s autobiography. Every evening while he clutched and read that cannon of book, he belched out his praises like a soulful incantation, like a man in a rally of…

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*”Fulanization” of the North by the South*

Farooq A Kperogi

Fears of “Fulani domination” have endured since Nigeria’s founding but, more than ever before, there is now an insanely unhealthy obsession with the Fulani in Nigeria’s South. The Fulani are not just routinely reviled with genocidal rhetorical venom, all manner of devious, supernormal political power is ascribed to them. In the service of the reigning monomania about the Fulani, Northern Muslims, irrespective of their ethnicity, are now labeled “Fulani.” It’s worse if they are also beneficiaries of “juicy” political appointments in the Buhari regime. Former Chief of Army Staff Tukur…

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