Photo credit: Nairaland I’m always fascinated at the fervour with which we prepare for funerals. So many people get into debts to bury their dead. A Yoruba saying goes that if a fraction of the care and money spent on funerals is spent on the invalid, most people will not be dying unnecessary deaths. And…

Photo credit: the Punch The market places are agog. No seller can honestly say they don’t have would-be buyers. It’s only the actual buyers that may not be forth coming. Even the chicken processors are in good business. See, the Id’el fitri is a chicken celebration. Chicken hawkers are busy, layers, broilers, etc. The chickens…

Photo credit: People’s Gazette History is the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. It’s also described as the whole series of past events connected with someone or something! Hmmm… Little wonder, our dealers, sorry leaders are trying their best to put History as a subject in our school syllabus. At least, we must…

Photo credit: PM News Nigerians are an interesting lot. I actually don’t know which is funnier between Nigeria and its citizens. What’s this I’m hearing about a young man unseating Kongi, Professor Wole Soyinka? Why are Nigerians so much in a hurry that to listen to the other party has always been a problem? Why…

Photo credit: Royal Museum 5 billionaires went down with the Titan! The fact that they were super-rich doesn’t mean they were not human beings, does it? However, the reaction of most people was that if people could be so rich as to spend a whopping $250,000 to take a dive into the ocean to explore…

Photo credit: Nigeria Bulletin The minimum wage issue has been a topic of discussion in Nigeria for quite a while. Organized labour discussed the matter with the governments and the private sector. The labour first asked for around a million naira, but the government said it wasn’t willing to pay that whopping amount. The government…