Vote buying. Credit: the Punch May I use this opportunity to congratulate the ever hopeful people of Ogun State on the occasion of their harvesting their own rights from political spendthrifts? This is election season and politicians are busy outspending each other. Pray, what are they spending on? All those things they ought to have…
Photo credit: Dreams time O ba f’okun we’ri o! Even if you’re alone;You can’t be lone –ly! Depending on you;‘N’ what believes you! K’o tun f’osa w’ese! There I feel deserted;If not perverted;On a lonely island;In a no man’s land! Eni Jesu we lo mo! To pack it inside;Exception is suicide;But to run away-Land with…
Hardly does any sane person need a clairvoyant to know things would turn out this way. The unfortunate thing is the fact that some of us warned against putting that murderer in Aso Rock. But then, it’s like our own ears are even ‘deafer’ than the man’s. We didn’t warn without evidence. We warned based…
Yeah, if people will choose to remember there will always be a tomorrow, our world might be a bed of roses. But then, there’s no gainsaying the fact that man is the most gifted of all animals. However, he conveniently chooses to forget the gifts when it suits him. There was once a man who…
Photo credit: the Telegraph Hell is surely beckoning. And, to ease the journey of people who have been condemned, a state in South Western Nigeria is bent on constructing an airport. The airport could have been described as an elephant project but people going to hell are already patronizing it, even while at its teething…
Photo credit: Wikipedia About one of the first things I grew up to know in the Yoruba culture is the egungun cult. Near our home at Itire, there used to live a family – an extended family – if you like, who lived a true Yoruba lifestyle though tinted with some Islamic practices. Islamic practices…
Photo credit: Africa News Watch A nation is concluding its national elections today. The activities in the country can’t but remind me of Nigerian elections. Even before a particular election ends, career politicians are already planning for the next elections. In the elections that are being concluded in Nigeria, meanwhile, a lot of resources would…
