Some months ago, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) turned 50 and people wanted to set the internet ablaze with their experience. Some went on to dust their service year pictures and were displaying them on social media. For those of us who never had an opportunity to serve as Youth Corp members, it was…
The senator who, I don’t want to dignify by mentioning his name, assaulted a woman has come out with some defence. According to him, his younger sister was beaten to a pulp earlier in that shop. Hear, hear! He even said that incident happened before he became a senator. It’s one thing to act and…
I was gisting with a pastor of one of the popular Pentecostal churches yesterday, and I was surprised with how little he knows about the most basic of things. For instance, he did not know the procedure of Islamic banking. That is, the bank does not discriminate on religious basis. I actually had to tell…
If there were an English word like “unguest”, I would have described myself as one. I had first travelled to the United States, thinking it was my land of hope. However, Donald Trump was trumpeting MAGA. Fortunately, I heard of Canada through my cousin, and I’ve never regretted my decision to come here. Of course,…
That the federal government of Nigeria led by Mr Mohammed Buhari is giving away some Abaçha loot is a done deal. The government will be giving away the money to poor households in nineteen states anytime from now. I thought I heard someone reporting that Mr Buhari said that Abacha was not corrupt. Then apparently,…
We had a PDP government in Nigeria for sixteen years, there was hardly any improvement in the lives of the masses. We are having an APC government for the third year, the material and mental poverty are not abating. Something is telling me it’s not the political parties or the governments that are faulty. Rather,…
Last week, the dailies were awash with reports of the authorities of various Universities in Nigeria, allegedly planning to increase the school fees of their respective institutions. However, that same week, some of those universities were refuting the alleged plan. As a kid, kite flying was one of our pastimes. Our parents were not short…
