LET me start by acknowledging that storytellers increasingly seek to replace historians in shaping narratives. While anyone ...

The Hausa and Yoruba communities in the SouthEast region have also risen in defence of their hosts saying it was a false claim. Their reactions followed a narrative which trended recently that the ...

My December 21, 2024, column titled “Kemi Badenoch’s Yoruba Identity Meets Inconvenient Truths,” where I set out to show that ...

Another five or six million Nigerians comprise a myriad of smaller tribes. The three powerful groups--Hausa, Yoruba, and Ibo--have formed the major parties. Governments rose to power when two ...

Leaders of the Yoruba, Hausa and Ndigbo communities in Delta State have thanked the traditional ruler of Uwvie Kingdom, Emmanuel Abe I, noting that the king and his subjects have made their stay ...

This is not to say though, that the word Èṣù does not appear in the Yorùbá Bible. The point is that it was never used as the ...

These became rulers of the Banza Bakwai, or seven 'illegitimate' Hausa states: Zamfara, Kebbik, Nupe, Gwari, Yauri, Yoruba and Kororofa. There is a general consensus that Hausa city-states were ...

A mathematics teacher in Nigeria, Mr. Kayode Adewale, has been named among the 50 finalists for the prestigious 2025 Global ...

Let me start by acknowledging that storytellers increasingly seek to replace historians in shaping narratives. While anyone can become a storyteller, not everyone can be a historian. Storytelling ...