Help Needed! – Adewale Sobowale

It won’t be wrong if at the extent our youths are bent on self destruction, we should call for urgent help. Many of our youths are now under the influence. They indulge in the expensive habit of drug taking. When people have been converted into drug users, they are likely to forsake everything just to…

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The West Surprises Me! – Adewale Sobowale

Yes! So, Canada held its Federal Election recently and the result was announced almost immediately. Ah… No election delays, no fake result, no touts, no rigging, no election observers and so on. What’s more…the political parties that did not win are taking it like gentlemen and women. They aren’t going to the tribunal. Even before…

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The Goggled One! – Adewale Sobowale

Let’s be thanking God for little mercies. Let’s thank Him for all things. I’m rereading Olusegun Adeniyi’s ‘The Last 100 Days of Abacha’. All the killings and attempted killings. The so- called phantom coup. The adoption by all the ‘five fingers of the same hand’, as late Bola Ige described the political parties of that…

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Nollywood abroad! – Adewale Sobowale

There’s no doubt that Nollywood – Nigeria’s version of Hollywood – is going places. With the number of Nigerians progressively committing the offence of japaing, the sky is actually the beginning for our thespians. The movies are actually doing a lot in reminding one of home. But, there is quite a few things to be…

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Too Close! – Adewale Sobowale

I had decided not to post anything about COVID 19 again. Especially, given Nigeria’s untidy management of the scourge. However, when a handshake moves to the elbow, it becomes a wrestle. The death of an old school buddy has made me shatter my shell. He attended the reputable Baptist Academy, Obanikoro in Lagos, where he…

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