Photo credit: Yahoo News Canada A majority of Canadians say they support communities declaring states of emergency in order to clear homeless encampments in parks and public spaces, according to a new poll. National Post reports that thirty-two per cent of Canadians said they supported the tactic and and 25 per cent said they somewhat supported it….
I’ll start this essay with the fact that I always refuse to praise any democratic government for what it’s using taxpayers’ money to do, if it actually does it. But then, there’s always an exception to any rule. The Yoruba say that, if we say our father’s masquerade will dance, and they don’t, nobody can arrest us….
The Bible says, “..the kingdom of God requires violence, and violent people have been raiding it.” (Mat. 11:12) I wasn’t surprised when I saw videos of a combined team of security forces including the police, army and the DSS blocking the major routes of the Free Nnamdi Kanu protest in Abuja yesterday. The incumbent has worked…
Yeah, if people will choose to remember there will always be a tomorrow, our world might be a bed of roses. But then, there’s no gainsaying the fact that man is the most gifted of all animals. However, he conveniently chooses to forget the gifts when it suits him. There was once a man who…
Hell is surely beckoning. And, to ease the journey of people who have been condemned, a state in South Western Nigeria is bent on constructing an airport. The airport could have been described as an elephant project but people going to hell are already patronizing it, even while at its teething stage. Why not an…
About one of the first things I grew up to know in the Yoruba culture is the egungun cult. Near our home at Itire, there used to live a family – an extended family – if you like, who lived a true Yoruba lifestyle though tinted with some Islamic practices. Islamic practices because they normally…
Photo credit: commonwealth A nation is concluding its national elections today. The activities in the country can’t but remind me of Nigerian elections. Even before a particular election ends, career politicians are already planning for the next elections. In the elections that are being concluded in Nigeria, meanwhile, a lot of resources would have been…
