Shut Up! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the council of Europe Yes, I believe we really do need to guard and guide our rights and freedoms jealously. We need to do it the way our grannies used to keep their chinaware! We were under the jackboots of the military for so long. I bet those people who were of age…

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Wishes And Horses! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times It’s a given that governments and private individuals do incorporate airlines. If we consider the bigger countries and say, if not them, who else? The ‘elses’ are those countries Nigerians will snigger at about their national worth. Indeed, individual Nigerians will jeer at people from those countries and feel they are…

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Two Wrongs! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times That Stealator Ike Ekeremadu was given the beating of his life in far away Germany is now history. I respect the Igbo for their being Republicans. They are not unnecessarily wowed by a person’s age. Neither do they care about whoever is not contributing to their welfare. Ekeremadu, by the way,…

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T’orun Wo! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Shutterstock Iku! Iba to those who,Whether aged or not,Have left this side!Those of us remaining,Whether we likeOr we don’tMust surely answerYour call! Alumuntu We do detest you;You’re a mystery;You don’t indulgeIn bribery!If not, the wealthyWould have killedYou, with riches! Iku You really don’tCare!About someone’s healthOr unhealth!About their wealthOr unwealth!About ageOr unage!About dressOr undress!…

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Fa Man! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times I understand the Father of Annulments is 79 years old today. I mean Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. I would rather say things to their faces when they’re alive rather than after they’ve departed this side of the earth. The only good thing he did was to release Nigerians from the fangs of…

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Gbósa for them! – Adewale Sobowale

I hear Ogun state in Nigeria has set a day aside as holiday for Traditional Worshippers known as Isese Day locally. I guess it’s a colonial burden that’s being lifted off our backs after almost 63 years of flag independence. It’s a good start. We should continue by imbibing the omoluwabi culture. Political office holders…

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