Opinion

I was at a naming ceremony today. To say I wasn’t the happiest will be an understatement of the year. The parents are so-called Christians. Why I doubt their Christianity will soon be apparent. By the way, I used to think it was only the Pentecostal churches that weren’t doing things the way we used…

Some of the wise sayings we learnt in elementary school quite a few years ago still ring in my ears. One of them is, ‘As you lay your bed, you’ll lie on it’. The Yoruba too are not found wanting in that area. They always say things like, ‘Amukun eru e wo, oke le nwo,…

Fast for forty days,Masses fast everyday.Awe ti b’awe nle,Biribiri gan la ngba! We already spent,Without being sentAeons in fast,Cos we lack. So when you sayWe must pay,Through fasting,We are smiling. Already we’re hungeredCos we ponderedOver nothing to eat,We have no wheat. We are prayingWhile picking,The left oversNot to be picked by others! Dikko was prophetic!…

I protest conventionRefuse to be prisonedBy societal idealsNot necessarily ideal! Believing more than ChristAt Christmas!Giving to the poorShould be everyday! At turn of new yearTurn I a new leafFor few minutesThen resumeMy old waysWhich is always! Society has set dateFor Christ’s deathAfter EasterOne can withdrawFor a yearCommitting all crimes! On Valentine’sWe’ll findLost loveTurn to lustVery…

Suffering disappointment?Want an appointmentwith Eledumare‘cos you’ll be late! We all know you foughtwith long thoughtsyou might not be winnerdon’t put your finger! In another cinder‘cos ’twill lingermight end in canceryou’re trying to buffer! When you finish your puff,are things less rough?As you finished feg,check your health! Of what use is your lossof those looniesand precious…

When the late Prof Ola Rotimi wrote a play titled, ‘Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again’, some of us might have thought he was being too harsh on our military rulers. The Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, once advised that people about to contest political posts in Nigeria should first be tested at ‘Aro’. People…

My paternal aunt had always been there, not only for me, but for everyone she came across. She was friendly to a fault. She was also a very good mixer. Although I wasn’t there when she was growing up, I could still see the effects of a Lagos lady that she truly was on her….