Photo credit: Premium Times It’s good to be good! Or should I say it’s good to have made a great impact? I can remember when Awo, as Chief Obafemi Awolowo was fondly called by friends and foes alike, was involved in charges of treason and subsequently imprisoned. I was then a skinny underpant wearing tot….

Gradually and rapidly, what should not qualify as even the exception is becoming the case in Nigeria. I’m referring to the insecurity that’s now an egbejoda, uniform, in Nigeria. The hungry vultures are rapidly becoming unfamished. If it’s not Boko Haram, it’s the modern herdsmen. Modern because in the not so far away days of…

When I was in school, if someone had outlived their usefulness, we normally sang a song for them: Òjò ń rọ̀Ṣe’ré ńnú’léMá wọ’nú òjòKí aṣọ rẹ̀Má bà tutùKí òtútùMá bà mú ẹ! The song warns about an impending shower of shame that’s going to flood a person. The Yoruba song is brutally franker than similar…

That Ogun State will become forty years tomorrow is now stale news. However, what I find unbecoming is the manner the State Government declared a public holiday. They said it was declared yesterday night. The government might have forgotten that most people do not enjoy constant power supply in Nigeria. Personally, I do not even…