Photo credit: iStock The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is getting super interesting as it approaches. It is no longer news that Olaiya Igwe went to the beach to pray to the gods (Yemoja?). But the only concern I have is that for someone to go as far as going naked while praying for some…
Photo credit: Daily Trust I hear Aminu Mohammed, the guy who was clamped into detention because he allegedly abused Mrs. Aisha Buhari, is now free. Mrs Buhari is the spouse of Nigeria’s president. She was said to have, along with others, given the boy some beatings before he ended up in detention. But then, that…
Photo credit: Freepik I’m confessing to getting used to a pastime. It’s sitting by a coffee in a cafe and watching the goings on early in the morning. Many cafes have picture windows. It’s not as if I’m unemployed. I purposely changed my duty hours to the night shift so that I’ll have time for…
Photo credit: NPR I need to state the obvious: Both men, Messrs Trump and Buhari, are not my favourite politicians. Both men, to me, are products of the consensus of the ruling elites of their respective countries. While the average American White had never forgiven the Democrats for bringing a black man to their White…
I love the Yoruba language. Of course, the Yoruba are mostly found in the Southwest of Nigeria. One of their songs is,‘Yokolu yokolu,Ko ha tan bi,Iyawo gbo’ko sanle,Oko yo’ke’. The song is normally sung to mock people who could have done better and prevented impending doom. One saying of the Yoruba I can’t forget is,…
Photo credit: The Punch I hear Nigeria is about to (if it hasn’t) borrow a humongous amount of between $23b and $30b US dollars! Yeepa!! Doesn’t it amount to selling our very future? Unfortunately, most, if not all, of the present political leaders and even those of us who are nobody will not be on…
Photo credit: PM News I guess it was Naeto that sang a song that became the poem of the time, titled ‘kini big deal?’, (what’s the result of all the hassles?) Is it not a song that suits these times? These are times when it has been vividly proved that the average Nigerian will do…
