News From Nigeria

1. Strait of Hormuz: Turkish oil tanker damaged A Turkish-operated oil tanker was damaged after striking what Iranian media described as a sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz. Reports indicate the vessel deviated from the transit route designated by ...

TODAY’S LANGUAGE LESSONYoruba words and expressions that don’t have a perfect one-word English equivalentEnglish needs an entire sentence to explain these Yoruba words.You think you can interpret all Yoruba words to English directly with just one word? Okay.Tell me the ...

MOREMI AND BANDITRYHistory teaches us that the banditry the Yoruba people are experiencing today is not new.Long ago, the people of Ile-Ife lived under constant attack from a group of raiders known as the Ugbo.To be clear, the Ugbo were ...

Some say Isese is a religion.Some say Isese is a spirituality.I say Isese is the collective culture, traditions, worldview, and ancestral heritage of the Yoruba people.Before Christianity and Islam arrived in Yorubaland, our ancestors already had names, languages, governance systems, ...

They aren’t synchronized with anyone. Sango is NOT a mute white woman, trapped inside a castle. Eshu is not a cute holy child that you give candy to. Because these saints may have displayed traits of the Orisha does NOT ...

Growing up in Ile-Ife during the late 1950s and 1960s, our taxi was a Morris Minor. The same was true in most towns and cities across Southwestern Nigeria. Motorcycles were not used as taxis.By the 1970s, Datsun, Toyota, and Peugeot ...

“He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). This is the single unbroken rule of Western engagement with African leadership. This principle applies as much to African ...

Over the course of the night of June 9 and 10, the United States conducted massive strikes against Iran; in retaliation, the Islamic Republic attacked three American bases in the Middle East. The strikes were executed “at the Commander in ...

The Yoruba traditional calendar, called Kọ́jọ́dá, starts the new year on June 3rd and ends on June 2nd the following year. It’s a lunar calendar with a 4-day week (each day honoring different Orisa), 7 weeks in a month, and ...