Omoniyi Ibietan

A Heavenly Birthday Wish to Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney would have been 82 on Saturday 23 March 2024 if his life was…

Mentor, brother and friend, Dapo Olorunyomi at 65

Multimedia award-winning journalist, founder of Premium Times (and other entities in that group), the man…

Let’s Take Nigeria Back!

In the Preface to his classic and development treatise, FROM THIRD WORLD TO FIRST–The Singapore…

A Short Diary of an Abuja Boy

Simbo Olorunfemi prompted this recall with his spectacular post, "Headies in Atlanta, NMA in Abuja".…

Fare Thee Well, Sidney Poitier: Son of Tomato Farmers

 By Ononiyi Ibietan Sidney Poitier, whose parents toiled in the real agrarian and bucolic contexts…

Kongi at 86: Oracular and humanistic

By Omoniyi Ibietan In July 2005, just before Prof. Wole Soyinka turned 71, my boss…

PIUS ADESANMI and the gift of prescience

Pius Adesnami By Omoniyi Ibietan The mortality of man is an unvarnished reality of our…

Why was Castro?

By Omoniyi Ibietan On July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro led an armed revolution against the…