Photo credit: Newspeak So many comments have been made about the randy lecturer. Some have so fittingly described him as Professor 5-5. While not totally disagreeing with that description, I want to give him another one. You know that when a new baby is born in these parts, the isomoloruko, naming is usually held on…
I believe we should congratulate each other for our respective reactions to this novel virus. But the congratulations will, of course, be limited to those who have sincerely given and citizens who have shown a lot of resilience to disappointments. I particularly praise the citizens because they deserve much better treatments from those governing them….
We used to talk of brain drain from the Third World countries to the West. Does the happening in Nigeria not represent a more serious infection? The inability to think deeply which I call a thought drain. It reminds me of the Yoruba folk tale about the dog and the tortoise. In the story, there…
It’s Tuesday. Yet, this week is already promising to be full of interesting things. The most popular word in Nigeria now is “betray”. It’s become so popular that, quite often, many mix up the act and the subject. More seriously, can the politicians say the reason they are declaring for whatever political post is because…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Italy has sent 40 failed asylum seekers to Albania. Reuters reports that they are to be held until repatriation to their home countries in vacant, Italian-run detention centres built for a stalled migration deterrent scheme. Italy built a couple of facilities in Albania last year intending to use them to process asylum…
Photo credit: Times colonist Dino Osmanovic came to Canada under the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 2021 with hopes of having his family follow him. Chek News reports that in January, limits were placed on temporary residents bringing their spouses and children to the country. Now, Osmanovic is appealing to the federal government to…
Can Nigerians ever imagine a place where almost everything works? I mean a situation in which there are no shouts of, ‘Up NEPA”, because you are over supplied with electric power. A place where the taps run 24/7. Some hospitals are even ready to give patients treatments when they don’t have money. And when we…
