Olatunji Dare

Nov 13, 2024 | thenationonlineng.net | Olatunji Dare

This essay was first published in The NATION on January 16, 2024.           January 6, 2024, marked the third anniversary of the terror unleashed on the U.S. Capitol by a frenzied mob grimly resolved to cancel – pardon my employing the locution du jour – one of the most hallowed traditions of the American political system: The peaceful transfer of power to the winning candidate.

Jul 22, 2024 | thenationonlineng.net | Olatunji Dare

If you don’t find “columnism” in the dictionary, you have my word that I did not make it up. I first encountered the term in an essay for The New York Times by the lexicographer, William Safire. Following him, I have used it in this space to denote the art and craft of writing a newspaper or magazine column. But I did so with not a little wariness.

Jul 16, 2024 | thenationonlineng.net | Olatunji Dare

Columnists Not unmindful of the insight of the poets that there’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, I make bold to assert what is already out there in published tributes and scheduled events: I will be turning 80 tomorrow (Wed, July 17). No matter how you slice the calendar or reckon the passage of time, that is a lot of years, exceeding by a full decade the proverbial three score and ten granted to man, according to Holy Writ.

Jul 14, 2024 | headlines.ng | Olatunji Dare |Wole Olaoye

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to visit Kebbi State in the NorthWest to commission a newly constructed Modern Secretariat and Mega Schools across the four Emirates in the state. According to Ahmed Idris, the Chief Press Secretary to the Kebbi State Governor, during his visit to the…CONTINUE READING»Headlines NewsletterSubscribe now for weekly top news headlines roundup, delivered directly to your inbox. THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBING!Something went wrong. - Advertisement -

Jul 14, 2024 | headlines.ng | Olatunji Dare |Wole Olaoye

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