Opinion

Photo credit: Reuters Unbelievable’s happening;Instead of buildingGlobal perpetuity;We’re besieged with mortality! Is Putin being kind to History?Even if he gains victory;With environmental degradation;Arising from wildlife extinction! Unfathomable scale of ruination;Resulting from destruction;Of obliterated villages and cities;By modernized savages! All is now set;For uninhabited planets;Solid city walls;Must take falls! Thought human lives sacrosanct;Not before unpleasant;Imbecilic savages;Who…

Photo credit: The Punch In the past, at least in Yorubaland, when a child was born, one of the first things his parents did was to call a babalawo, diviner, to check out what the child’s future would be like. By so doing, the parents would have known what the child was most likely to…

Photo credit: Hindustan Times I learn today is International Men’s Day! Hmm… Oro sunukun! It’s a day men’s contributions to a peaceful society ought to have been celebrated. But, are men – especially African men – worth celebrating? I’m asking this pertinent question considering the fact that it seems to me that African nations are…

I try to be mysterious if not mischievous while trying to profile people. But this gentleman is probably in a world of his own. He’s so jovial and realistic. In short, he’s my type of man. He used to be a parent of one of my pupils. When his son was in the hostel, the…

Photo credit: premium times I really don’t care a bit about whoever might have won the elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. In any case, it’s a truth that I don’t care about the party at the center. Indeed, I regard Mr Buhari as a only a regent. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t have been…

Photo credit: The Punch It’s no longer a secret that the late Timothy Adegoke, a master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State is dead. He died at the Hilton Hotel and Resort in Ife where he had lodged after his arrival from Abuja. My sincere condolences to the family and friends…

He hardly hates anyone. Although ́we’ve not met, physically, for over 20 years, technology has made sure we keep in touch. We disagree on a number of issues, and it’s yet to affect our amity. He’s one of the few friends I made while schooling at Ifẹ̀. And he remains a good brother. He always…