With Whose Permission? – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the conversation Adekunle Oluseyi and Edward Soje are no more!May their souls find peace with their creator!! Both of them committed suicide in the outgone week. Like I wrote sometime ago, I salute the courage of those people who were so brave enough to commit suicide! So many of us have thought of…
Odun Eegun! – Adewale Sobowale
Vote buying. Credit: the Punch May I use this opportunity to congratulate the ever hopeful people of Ogun State on the occasion of their harvesting their own rights from political spendthrifts? This is election season and politicians are busy outspending each other. Pray, what are they spending on? All those things they ought to have…
In The Cold! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Dreams time O ba f’okun we’ri o! Even if you’re alone;You can’t be lone –ly! Depending on you;‘N’ what believes you! K’o tun f’osa w’ese! There I feel deserted;If not perverted;On a lonely island;In a no man’s land! Eni Jesu we lo mo! To pack it inside;Exception is suicide;But to run away-Land with…
Any Surprise? – Adewale Sobowale
Hardly does any sane person need a clairvoyant to know things would turn out this way. The unfortunate thing is the fact that some of us warned against putting that murderer in Aso Rock. But then, it’s like our own ears are even ‘deafer’ than the man’s. We didn’t warn without evidence. We warned based…
World Bank boss pleads for poorest countries!
Photo credit: Reuters As ministers and central bank governors from around the world gather in Washington alongside thinktank and charity bosses to discuss the state of the global economy and its ability to generate a higher standard of living, debt, and why governments need to reduce it, will top the agenda at this week’s annual meetings of…
Migrant workers exploited and forced to live in squalor in Saudi Arabia!
Photo credit: Amnesty International Migrant workers at Carrefour sites, in Saudi Arabia, are exploited and forced to live in squalour. According to a report be Amnesty International UK, workers from Nepal, India and Pakistan are made to work 16-hour days and threatened with costly lay-offs if they refused to work overtime. One of the workers…