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 that’s true! The…
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 themselves are putting up…
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 read about all that…
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 the wreck of a…
There’s nothing to beat the communal life of Africans. This is most especially exemplified by the Yoruba. If they don’t see someone in a day, by midday that person would have received, at least, half a dozen callers. They would have come to see if he is ok. Amongst the Yoruba, greetings are very important….
In my innocence, I used to think grey hair and baldness went with riches and wisdom. Not until I started having both did I realise my belief was nothing but a ruse. The grey hair started with an obscure strand. But it is all over me now, even in the unlikeliest of places. What’s more,…
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 said it was only…
