I read the press conference addressed by the Lagos State commissioner for information and strategy and I began to wonder. Why? The governor, in his earlier address, had put the date for the ban as June 1. The commissioner, in his own statement said, “with immediate effect”. You know, I’ve always tried to say things…
Ajegunle – with unlivable, ramshackle palaces, kids playing in cesspits, since the place lacks, even, simplest of amenities – remains a banter, where our new jungle cities are! Even the dead, dead as dodo, get deprived of eternal rest or unrest, graveyards must be reclaimed, and give way to skyscrapers! Sleeping waters are woken, reclamation…
Photo credit: BBC Ten years after the Brexit vote, British politicians are reviving the question of rejoining the EU. Sweden is keeping its fingers crossed. “We miss the British,” says Trade Minister Benjamin Dousa I(M). The Sweden Herald reports that Britain’s exit from the EU was gruelling and protracted, and ultimately a complete disaster for…
Photo credit: Turkey Today Italy hosted a new round of quadrilateral talks with Libya, Turkey and Qatar on migration and security coordination in the central Mediterranean, underscoring the emergence of a new diplomatic format focused on managing migration flows through Libya. Decode 39 reports that the meeting was held on Tuesday in Rome. It brought together senior security and…
Photo credit: NBC News Billie Jean King, the 82-year-old sports and equality icon, has celebrated earning a college degree 65 years after she first took classes. The Associated Press reports that the tennis legend received her Bachelor of Arts in history from Cal State Los Angeles on Monday, walking across the stage in hot pink glasses…
Abeokuta is an interesting place to live in. Almost everyone knows whom you are. If not directly, then by extension. But for me, I find life in Abeokuta somewhat on the dull side. People generally do not wake up until around six o’Clock in the morning. OK, people hardly get to the bus stops until…
The average Yoruba should be wisdom personified. That’s because embedded in the tradition and culture of the Yoruba are words of wisdom and wisecracks that could serve the discerning for a lifetime. One of these is that the egungun festival will end and acolytes who had been eating like royalty will soon join run-of-the-mill folks….
