Photo credit: the.Guardian People do suffer! OK, I’ve been hearing a phrase: Gb’omu le lantern. The literal meaning is placing some breast on a lantern. Can you imagine how it will feel? Putting a woman’s succulent breasts on a lit lantern. Even a man will certainly not enjoy it. I don’t know the phrase’s roots,…
Kaduna state teachers during examination. Photo credit; BBC I love law! Indeed, I love looking at legal angles to analyse sociopolitical problems. In most cases, the legal position may not respect morality. The ability to use logic is more apt. However, in a number of instances, legality tends to bow to morality. Hence, we have…
Photo credit: BBC What have we become? In the past people respected themselves and things went on in an orderly manner. Money had value then. How many young people know one Guinea? That is one pound one, that was the abbreviation for one pound one shilling in British currency. We usually heard it in bazaars…
Photo credit: the Guardian Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. If we agree so, may I ask who/what the father is? A friend called me early this morning, and after the usual exchange of banter, I asked how he was doing. His reply was a hit below the belt, he said he was…
Photo credit: The Guardian Some of the news one gets on social media, in some ways, exposes the lack of information that’s rampant amongst our so-called educated folks. An incident happened yesterday morning. As if I knew it would be a harbinger of confusion, I just ‘borrowed’ an album of the Lijadu Sisters and used…
Photo credit: Punch Newspaper I once posited that since we normally have, Man of the Year’, we should be having the opposite. In my little wisdom, I have chosen to title the opposite as, ‘Unman of the Year’! A fitting title, ain’t it? When I was in the elementary school, for someone who performed well,…
Photo credit: Pinterest I noticed one sometime last week. Since then, several have appeared on my street. When I was a kid, we normally saw them at St Jude’s Church and St Paul’s first. Christmas lightings! It’s a reminder that the year is coming to an end. Well, while the year has had to bow…
