Opinion

Photo credit: the Punch Come off it!That’s my response to a friend who told me it’s pay day for some of our excretable excellencies. They really don’t belong to us again. It’s not as if we are doing yanga. But considering how they’ve been behaving since they went into the prison called state house, I…

Photo credit: Premium Times I really couldn’t believe when I heard the news of people being offered incentives to encourage them to help themselves and the community. Some people are sceptical in taking the covid vaccines. Meanwhile.the vaccines – apparently – do have a shelf life after which they might be less potent. It’s now…

Adebolu was on the line. Adebolu: Prof, I’m in a fat crap. Me: You only call when you are in trouble. You still owe me a hundred bucks from— Adebolu: Forget the hundred bucks, egbon. You how many naira you are saying? I loaned the money when the rate was 650 naira to one dollar….

Photo credit; Britannica Keresimesi! All go on journeyThey’ve got moneyCymbals soundDrums boom! Odun de! Dunno where money is fromEveryone seems to be drunkWith wine or moneyGo they on spree! Odun olowo! Unable to buy ready made?Go for Aswani madeThat’sAswani gbami odun de! Keresimesi! Some go into theftOthers into debt‘Cos celebrate they mustE’en when unjust! Odun…

Photo credit: the Sun When I was much younger, there was, opposite the then Leventis Stores in Marina, Lagos what was known as Quay Side. True, it was a place where ships berthed and sailors did sailor-like pastimes of womanising, smoking Indian hemp, drinking – sometimes to a stupor, those of them that wanted to…

Photo credit: ervana Are we not tired of being dribbled here, there and beyond by unskilled footballers manifesting as our crude politicians? Yes, crude, very crude! Was it not in the last elections that people were bribed with kulikuli and gari. That could be interpreted in various ways. First, the bulk of Nigerians are so…

Photo credit: The Punch I believe any money those public officials have mistakenly misappropriated should be allowed to stay with those officials. It’s not easy to manipulate and get away with government Newspaper reports say men of the EFCC have stormed the venue of the PDP convention. Haba! What’s their business there? Are they spoilsports?…