Nigeria For Sale! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Carbon brief Whenever Buhari finishes dealing with Nigeria, it’s so apparent the country will not be the same. It’s even if Nigeria remains as one. Please, do note that I never said ‘one indivisible’, because the embers of division are already there in Nigeria. The painful thing about that is that those in…

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Order! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: NiteOut That a cop was dead drunk on duty in the state of aquatic splendor is no longer news. An inspector for that matter. And yeah, he got what he deserved. In these days of job seekers being more than the employed, a person will now be playing with his work. It was…

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Ogun and Adire! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Rock City FM That the Ogun State government has deemed it fit to officially recognize ADIRE, a traditional batik that has been made popular by the Egbas is great. However, I don’t see anything new in that. When Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was President, he hardly wore anything apart from ADIRE. Osoba and Amosun…

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Yahoo Is Outdated! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: iStock I recently came in contact with some Nigerian youths who are doing quite well for themselves in information technology. The fees for their services are not chicken feed. Some of them even have domiciliary accounts with various Nigerian banks for foreign transactions. Of course, there’s no way their impacts wouldn’t be felt,…

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Subu Sere! Free-Fall!! – Adewale Sobowale

Yinyin nda! Were I prophet;Lotteries and bets;Will specialize on;They’re novel turns on! Sere ninu Ile! Rites of passage;Didn’t I presage?Sent me from city;Was I liver- lillied! Ma wo nu re! A whole six feet;Doesn’t matter to it;No respect for length;And, down I went! Ki aso re! Protecting my cell;From getting wet;And, down I went;Spite of…

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