The Egbas are celebrating the Lisabi festival today. Actually, it has been a week long affair culminating in today’s grand finale. I gather a visit will be made to the Lisabi forest, the men’s cult, oro will come out and when it comes out, women must be indoors. T’obinrin ba foju k’oroOro a gbe. A…
There is a new vogue among males and a few females now. I mean our youth and quite a number of the elderly. A big investor in the new vogue, when he was interviewed by journalists, called it the new stock exchange for the masses. A participant says it is better than oil and gas….
We enjoyed some respite yesterday. The sons of men said they were celebrating a festival. Lisabi Festival! It was a really grand event. Early in the morning, they went to the grove where they offered the annual sacrifice. They later went to the palace for merriment. However, one outstanding practice that we cows noticed was…
The kindness of the Nigerian government has been reinforced with the donation of a whopping $1 milion dollars to Afghanistan. Mind you, it wasn’t donated to the United Nations, Unicef or the Red Cross. Rather, the small amount of money was donated to the Taliban Government of the country. We should all give kudos to…
If soldiers are gentlemen and gentlemen’s words are their bonds, then the recantation of the five thousand naira promise to unemployed Nigerians couldn’t have been uttered by President Buhari. Even though he is a retired soldier, old soldiers, they say, never die. The discipline is always there. To deny the unemployed people the benefit of…
A photograph is going trendy on the social media now. It’s the one of a so-called destitute woman in Ibadan. That should not have rung a bell because it is not strange in this country. However, the shocking thing is that most of the posters do not fail to remark that the photograph is that…
There’s this trouble that’s always brewing up between some Igbo and Yoruba people. You know when people are well fed they will be looking for bekun bekun! The Lagosians’ accusation is that the Igbo do not respect them to the extent that they are calling Lagos a no man’s land. Apart from that, they are…
