Opinion
Pajawiri! Emergency!! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Source Magazine The South Easterners used a device to deter the more superior, in terms of fire power and strategy, federal forces during the regrettable and unnecessary civil war. That is ogbunigwe. Sadly, instead of the federal government to order research into it and thereby make it an instrument of warfare, the…
Thief! Ole!! Barawo!!! Ohi!!!! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Humangle I am proud to be Yoruba. We have a strong culture. Part of our culture is the use of words to capture every situation graphically. Never mind the fact that most of us refer to our mother tongue as ‘vernacular’, when it comes to teaching our children the language. For example, there…
Inhuman Nigerians! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Nairaland A report is trending on social media that a son of the President, Yusuf, was involved in an accident earlier today According to the report, the younger Buhari had the accident while racing on a power bike with a friend. Some Nigerians are going to town asking where he got fuel in…
S:L:S:F:M:R: – Adewale Sobowale
Looking back to the days of childhood, I’ve discovered there were things we did because we never knew better. But then, most unfortunately, our teachers, too, were hardly better than us in our crude innocence! An example was singing the song, ‘O My Home’. O my homeO my homeWhen shall I see my homeWhen shall…
Seriously? – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: People Gazette Nigeria’s constitution is a clinical one. It’s made more so by so-called professional politicians. Let’s look at Governor Akeredolu’s death and his deputy’s swearing-in. Both happened on the same day. In fact, it was as if the House of Assembly knew the late governor would die anyway. The new governor who…
Social relevance! – Adewale Sobowale
Nollywood has arrived! I say it again, Nollywood has really arrived!! It’s some minutes to 4:00 am here and I just finished watching two nollywood movies – “Stigma” and “Gentle Madness”. The former is about HIV and the latter is about bipolar disorder. Both are socially relevant issues. 122523