I vividly remember Chief Ebenezer Obey’s song of the seventies, ‘Ohun ti o da o da’. In English, it means, ‘There is no other name to call a bad thing but bad’. It is no longer news that a section of the official residence of the Oba of Lagos, Iga Idunganran, was engulfed in a…
It was with a great sense of pity that I watched Dr Badamasi Lawal Charachi, the Katsina state commissioner for education, explaining away the mass purchase of dogs! By the way, Katsina is in Nigeria and it happens to be the state Mr Buhari hails from. All those people from a certain state in the…
As the head of the Political jagbajantis, sorry, directorate, of RCCG has declared that Osinbajo is the only child of God and pastor who can take Nigeria to the promised land, I wouldn’t think any primary is necessary again for all the political parties in Nigeria. We should just enthrone him as president with immediate…
The news was agog yesterday about a court in the UK’s sentencing a Nigerian senator who, with his wife, was found guilty of organ harvesting. Knowing how the British love their holidays, and yesterday being Labour Day, were the courts in session yesterday? I googled it, and the answer is, “There are no court sittings.”…
The two central labour unions in Nigeria are demanding a minimum wage of of fifty six thousand naira. Brilliant, isn’t it? When we look at the profligacy of the ruling class, the working class deserves much more. A faction is even asking for ninety thousand naira. Yes, labour deserves the key to the central bank!…
The ever philosophical Yoruba have a saying that, ‘Ori yeye ni mogun, taise lo po’. This roughly translates to, ‘so many are punished unjustly’. I congratulate Zainab Aliyu immensely for having an influential father. If her father had not been amongst the formidable wheeler-dealers of society, she would most probably have ended up on the…
Nothing more brings to mind the hard times we are in than the fact that some southwestern states in Nigeria have legislated, in their respective houses of assembly, that people sinking boreholes will henceforth be paying some money. This is to inform citizens that, even in Freetown, nothing goes for free. However, I think the…
