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Oluwo holier than the godless Ilorin imam (2)

Daily Dispatch August 8, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, August 8, 2025) It’s my third day in the serene city of Ilorin, where no fly has perched on my gleamy spacecraft, nor has anyone come near to vandalise it. What curious onlookers have done is to stand in awe at a distance and fantasise – […]

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Oluwo holier than the godless Ilorin imam (1)

Daily Dispatch August 1, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, August 1, 2025) Clad in a silver-colour spacesuit like Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, I boarded my shuttle of prose – on a mission through myth and reality – to the ancient town of Ikoro-Ekiti, a lush land that existed […]

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The day alcohol showed me shégè (2)

Daily Dispatch January 17, 2025

By Tunde Odesola Without cross-ventilation, the staffroom was a dimly illuminated coven where students were flogged together with their shadows. Painted blue upon crimson baseboard, the staffroom always wears a mean look, like a barracks on coup day. “Where did you fetch the òdaràn from?” Mr Olukitibi asked the senior students. “School farm, sir,” they […]

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Maggoty Senate and rotten judiciary

Daily Dispatch June 23, 2023

By Tunde Odesola C-o-o-u-u-r-r-t-t!!! Yekinni, the court clerk, yelled like someone grabbed by the balls. Everybody inside the Court-of-A-Piss jumped to their feet. This is Her Lordship’s Court. She’s a beautiful, no-nonsense High Priest in the Temple of Justice. Everybody respects her because she’s formidable, courageous, intelligent and connected. Devotees in the Temple