Photo credit: Business Day A certain governor in the southwest has declared that it takes a lot of courage to be earning less than $24,000 and be presiding over a budget of more than $500,000. He is also ‘visibly’ worried by the poor take home pay of civil servants. In the first instance, I wouldn’t…
Photo credit: Nigeria Nostalgia Mine was a very lively childhood. I would say I had a pretentious innocence. That’s because I actually knew much more than the adults knew that I did. And, I’m suspecting that at least half of the youngsters of those days had a semblance of that too. You know, school was…
Photo credit: Britannica These are certainly days when those of us who are no Muslims suddenly wish why not. Even at these austere times, if you stay in a place where Muslims are many, like I do, you should, by now, be working out how to pay Sallah visits to your numerous friends. It is…
Photo credit: YouTube Sometime in the not-too-far past, I used to visit Togo frequently. Of course, you can only visit Togo from Nigeria through the Republic of Benin. At least, that’s the only route I know. Since the hotel I usually stayed in was on the Togo-Ghana border, I usually used the opportunity to visit…
Photo credit: Daily Trust The federal government has, through the director general of the National Council for Arts and Culture, banned fetish displays at cultural festivals. To usher in the 2017 African Arts and Craft Expo starting in Abuja today, Olusegun Runsewe was said to have gleefully announced that this would affect subsequent cultural events…
Photo credit: Channels TV He’s positioned as the Director-General for Arts and Culture. Anytime he wants to justify his post and pay, he must go deep in arrant nonsense. He was reported to have dwelt on the Nigerian crossdresser, Bob Risky in a recent interview. As we used to say in those, not too far…
Photo credit: Alamy Ah tor! Why is this guy always defending the indefensible? So pastors are running the country better is now news? What point is this oje nile oro, je nle egungun making. I really can’t see a single tangible point in his epistle. Isn’t it a fact that churches have sprouted up where…
