Photo credit: BAP Production Wheneve I ponder over the Yoruba concept of omoluabi, I think it’s one of the few Yoruba terms that the English language could be said to have a meaningful response to. It’s beautifully captured in the meaning of humaneness. Humaneness is compassion for others and others could be either people or…
Photo credit: Leadership When we talk, they can’t but call us wailers. But I think being called a wailer as far as Mr Buhari’s despotic government is concerned could be regarded as a compliment. The news in Nigeria now is about onion. Onion is now so scarce that it could be regarded much more than…
I couldn’t be happier last Sunday. It started as a WhatsApp chat, and it read:‘Good morning to you and the entire household. God bless you, my dear brother.’The person was not on my WhatsApp list, and the profile picture was womanish. So, I replied: ‘Good morning sis. May I meet you?’‘I remain Aderemi Agoro, the…
Photo credit: AATF That our president, his excellency, Mr Goodluck Jonathan is making his intention known today is not news. It is not news because he has the right so to do. Politically, the conditions are also right. The two hundred girls who were seized by the dreaded boko haram have been married off to…
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…
