Photo credit: the Conversation As mass protests have paralyzed Bangladesh in recent weeks, the military was deployed to the streets with a command to shoot at sight. The Conversation reports that there have been 266 people dead, and 7,000 people were injured. Over 10,000 people have been arrested. Meanwhile, a near-total communications blackout has cut…
Photo credit: Fox News Immigrants make up about 14% of the US population. When they start working, they pay taxes and spend on services, which is an economic benefit for the US. An analysis has found that dropping all immigration restrictions would double the world’s GDP. Research has also found that global poverty is 40%…
Photo credit: Adobe Stock I thought I was too sharp to enter a ‘one chance’ bus. I felt I was too smart to be ‘419ed’. Indeed I felt I was too street wise to be conned. The saying is true that if a misfortune is to happen to someone who is abroad he will take…
Photo credit: Premium Times The above is a corrupted form of ‘peculiar mess’ .…..or shall we say a Yoruba version? Adegoke Adelabu, a pre- independence politician who belonged to the NCNC had the copyright to that phrase. But I only referred to the phrase because what is happening in some states is nothing but PECULIAR…
Photo credit: CSA images In my last post, a stupid boy chose to advise me about ‘writing your life on fb’, in reference to me. I have chosen not to dignify the brat by naming him. In the first instance, I’m embarrassed by the written English of the poor boy. By his own admission, he…
Photo credit: the Punch Today is the twenty first anniversary of Fela’s death. There are some things which we say unconsciously that turn out to be prophetic. Fela changed his surname from the colonially oriented Ransome-Kuti to Anikulapo-Kuti. He boasted then that he couldn’t die. Apparently, he himself did not know that it was not…
