Opinion

Never do I knowWe do it where I come fromCrossing in between vehiclesE’en when green lights are onFor motorists to haveRight of way! So, selfishlyDo I manoeuvre my wayRoad to crossNot minding traffic rules! As long as I lookTo the rightTo the leftAnd to the right again! Not knowingPolice car is the nextHe screeches to…

Seed of my troubled youth,I do praise you.For your resilience;And patience!Could have made,Ziĺlion dollar bales,But for fate,Which is affected by faith.If not for you,I would have wasted my youth.People said I should visitThe dibia, whether he willFind a solution to you,Being the you!But, ibi ori da’ni si,Ao gbodo fi tele!To ba w’Olodumare,A fun mi.Bi o…

Let’s be thanking God for little mercies. Let’s thank Him for all things. I’m rereading Olusegun Adeniyi’s ‘The Last 100 Days of Abacha’. All the killings and attempted killings. The so-called phantom coup. The adoption of the ‘five fingers of the same hand’, as the late Bola Ige described the political parties of that troubled…

If I had the opportunity, I would have asked the Nigerian President what happened during the lockdown to warrant easing it from next Monday. I would have even asked him if he had succeeded in getting an okay from COVID-19 that it must only strike at night. That would have informed him of a curfew…

There’s no doubt that Nollywood – Nigeria’s version of Hollywood – is going places. With the number of Nigerians progressively committing the offence of japaing, the sky is the beginning for our thespians. The movies are doing a lot in reminding one of home. But there are quite a few things to be done. For…

Hey, would you want black-eyed Susan?I’ll prefer Canna,my mom wants Hibiscusand Papa loves Lavender! We can have all,since it’s summer!We gonna have long long dayswhich will be scorchingly sunny! Off with heavy layersof wears in wintry days!Some wore five jackets,others three trousersplus thermal coats! They still frozesince cold couldn’t be kept at bay!Times like thoseone…

In the night,we do eat light!But so many neverdid lunch ever! At dawn, workersand, even loiterersdo get up from cotsleaving wives untouched! Muraina wakes Muezzin,Gabriel’s a Christian,Owonikoko a traditionalist,Jafojo – a free spirit! All are unitedin this businessof making a concretejungle of our cities! it appearstheir own Goddoes snore in sleepand needs to be woken!…