If soldiers are gentlemen and gentlemen’s words are their bonds, then the recantation of the five thousand naira promise to unemployed Nigerians couldn’t have been uttered by President Buhari. Even though he is a retired soldier, old soldiers, they say, never die. The discipline is always there. To deny the unemployed people the benefit of…

A photograph is going trendy on the social media now. It’s the one of a so-called destitute woman in Ibadan. That should not have rung a bell because it is not strange in this country. However, the shocking thing is that most of the posters do not fail to remark that the photograph is that…

There’s this trouble that’s always brewing up between some Igbo and Yoruba people. You know when people are well fed they will be looking for bekun bekun! The Lagosians’ accusation is that the Igbo do not respect them to the extent that they are calling Lagos a no man’s land. Apart from that, they are…

I have a farmland somewhere in the southwest. We used to cultivate the land there and rear some birds in the not too distant past. However, for reasons that will be explained on another occasion, we no longer work there, at least, for now. Call me an absentee farmer if you like. In my active…

The movie begins when Mr Adeboye’s father buys an umbrella. It is a very rare thing, not unlike when the colonizers came to Africa and dazzled the folks with mirrors and gin. Then Enoch tells his father that he wants to attend high school. The father doesn’t have the money. Enoch refuses to eat for…