At 22, she had already mapped out her career path. She wanted to be a fashion designer and she was ready to sacrifice her comfort to achieve her aim in life. With her choice of Lekki area as location of her shop and studio house during the week, to commute to Sango area of Ogun State to be with her parents and siblings at weekends, Oluwabamise Ayankole dreamt of rubbing shoulders with the high and mighty in the society. She knew that through determination and hard work, her dream would become a reality. That dream has, however, been cut short by ritualists who were allegedly working in collaboration with a BRT bus driver.

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The decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to eventually give his assent to the new Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2022 ends the 12-year journey of the old law under which three general elections and many other isolated polls have been conducted.

When I drove past Idi-Ape area of Ibadan on Wednesday, there wasn't any sign that the arena would soon metamorphose into a theatre of blood. What occupied my mind while moving along the busy lane was a picture of the city as a medley of forgotten, blossoming and aborted dreams. There was the frustrating jeremiad of a motorcyclist lamenting the biting effect of the fuel scarcity conundrum, the tiny voice of the Muezin spreading out from a nearby mosque, the innocence of teenage hawkers maneuvering their ways through snake-like traffic snarl, the sound of exhausted car engines whistling endlessly under the full glare of the afternoon sun, and the dangerous demeanors of Ibadan Micra drivers racing impatiently to nowhere. From Iwo Road to Gate, the city was alive in all of its chaotic beauty.

Veteran radioman and humourist, Bashiru Adisa Bàbáa-Gboin, will celebrate his 40th year in broadcasting this May. The epochal moment, or so I heard this evening, would inspire gongs, Bata, Ìjálá-Ode, and a grand Ówàmbè. I reckon now that there are perhaps over 40 reasons why Baba-Gboin's place in the Yoruba creative space remains outstanding.

At dawn, just before the sun rose above the horizon, the attacks were launched with feral intensity. By the time dusk fell, not a few Ilorin soldiers had had their heads severed from their bodies by rampaging Ibadan fighters, led by Balogun Ajayi Ogboriefon. The ones who fled the battle field in an attempt to retreat ran into their doom at the rear of Otin river. They drowned and perished. And then the epic one-day battle, staged in Ikirun on Friday November 1, 1878, was christened “Jalumi”— ‘Drown in the River’.