Photo credit: LinkedIn So, how many of us care to listen to the other side of the story? Many people do surprise me when they base their prejudiced and jaundiced ‘judgements” against the other party basing their sickened decisions on the “complainant’s” version of what actually transpired. Even if they were friends with the party…

Photo credit: BBC I understand the African Union is embarrassed by American President Trump’s declaration that some countries are shitholes. Yes, they ought to be. You know people don’t like outsiders to correct or criticize them. If not so, I wouldn’t think President Trump was wrong. In fact, he even tried for the fact that…

Photo credit: the Guardian There is a saying among the Yoruba that we are all thieves, it’s only those caught that are officially called so. I don’t know much about corruption in the First Republic. However, during the Gowonic era, I heard of the “If you Tarka me…” and the Iyabo Olorunkoya cases. In the…

Sometime ago, I used to be a housemaster. By the way, that was the job I enjoyed most. I simply love the youth! While there, more often than not, I had to counsel some boy who had been given a nickname that the more he showed a dislike for the nickname,, the more it would…

Photo credit: Landtours I was at a naming ceremony today. To say I wasn’t the happiest will be an understatement of the year. The parents are so-called Christians. Why I doubt their Christianity will soon be apparent. By the way, I used to think it was only the Pentecostal churches that weren’t doing things the…

Photo credit: BBC People who know me understand that I believe so much in human rights and due process. I would not normally call a person a thief until he has been declared so by a competent court of law. As a result, I detest all forms of media trial. I hate jungle justice more….