Photo credit: BBC A very long time ago, when eyes were still on the knees, there was a great famine which affected all animals. The famine was such that animals couldn’t get food to eat. They then called a meeting to discuss the famine. At the end of the day, they decided to kill their…
I beg to be different! Yeah!! As far as being straightjacketed is concerned, I’m just too old to change! I’ll not be caught, except when necessary, doing aso ebi, uniform, for social functions. I certainly won’t be caught going to church only on Christmas day. I have stopped going to church only on New Year’s…
Photo credit: Daily Post The so-called celebration of love is manifesting itself in various ways in Nigeria. I’ll keep on saying it that the European experience just can’t be summarily imposed on Africans. Not because Africans are less human, but because cultures tend to differ from place to place. When we call our traditional rulers…
Some people might not know I’ve given up on Buhari. Why shouldn’t I? Ore kinni’pa se fun’di? A kuku’joye san j’enu mi o ka’lu lo! I believe he’s either being wicked or he’s not aware of the situation of things in the country he’s failed to rule well. I don’t want to say he’s already…
I protest conventionRefuse to be prisonedBy societal idealsNot necessarily ideal! Believing more than ChristAt Christmas!Giving to the poorShould be everyday! At turn of new yearTurn I a new leafFor few minutesThen resumeMy old waysWhich is always! Society has set dateFor Christ’s deathAfter EasterOne can withdrawFor a yearCommitting all crimes! On Valentine’sWe’ll findLost loveTurn to lustVery…
Photo credit: Hodges Figgis After fifty, the body stops sending polite emails and begins issuing official memos. You wake up one morning and discover that your knees now have opinions. Your back has started keeping records. Your blood pressure has developed ambitions. Somewhere inside you, cholesterol is quietly building a retirement home along your arteries…
Photo credit: Football 360 Some Manchester United players are alarmed by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s extraordinary rant on immigration in which he claimed the UK was being “colonized”. The Mirror reports that United co-owner Ratcliffe made headlines on Wednesday when he took aim at the level of migration in Britain and made false claims about the…
