Photo credit: BBC Tanzania’s main opposition party has been banned from participating in this year’s election. BBC reports that the party was banned some days after its leader was charged with treason. Director of elections at the Independent National Elections Commission, Ramadhani Kailma, said Chadema had failed to sign a code of conduct document that was…
Whenever someone dies, someone TV gogives birth, someone is getting married and even if someone is warming their newly built house, my people, the Yoruba like marking such milestones with uniforms. This one is to show their solidarity with the celebrators. Meanwhile, those people celebrating would have factored their expenses on their incomes from the…
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…
