Photo credit: Facebook ‘Ori yeye n mogun, tai se lo po nbe’. The aforementioned is a Yoruba saying denoting the injustice of power when used stupidly. I just learnt about one hundred men of the Nigerian police force were sent to make sure Bob Risky didn’t celebrate his birthday. Bob Risky himself ‘spoke with his…
Photo credit: Daily Trust I’ve always told whoever cares to listen that the Nigerian situation will get worse before getting better. See the headline of yesterday’s news. The Interim Management Committee of the NDDC (Niger Delta Development Commission) has declared that Nigeria will break if it releases the list of looters in the organization. Dr…
Photo credit: International Inc. Life is so interesting. Living life is more interesting. A person finding his own space and living his own life in his own way is the most interesting being, I have found, in life. You see, if you allow yourself to be manouvered by some others, you may end up being…
Photo credit: the Cable It’s ileya, Sallah eve. People are tumbling into Egba in their thousands. I guess they’ll be Martians, as people from the planet Mars, are called. Oh no!They’ve got the bucks!! I don’t know why people should be saying the economy is not improving. People are buying everything. Not only that, they…
Photo credit: Premium Times Moses Adejumo, aka Baba Sala was the quintessential comic of my childhood. In one of his plays, a new wife of his, Kariile, does something Baba Sala finds unpardonable. He then offers her for sale to any willing buyer.‘Gbanjo,Gba-gba-ngba,Gbanjo,Bi mo ri ma raOmoge di toro!Kariile di toro!!! In the second republic,…
Photo credit: Channels TV The Yoruba have a saying, ‘Oju l’alakan fi n so’ri’. That’s one couldn’t be too careful. Yeah! At these times when even spouses should be wary of each other. When parent to child relationships could be sacrificed for cheap gains of naira. And, when friends could betray one another for material…
Photo credit: Facebook ‘Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death’. – Haruki Mukarami The above quotation by the Japanese writer, Haruki Mukarami, shows how he sees death. He sees death as a continuation of life. The Yoruba worldview believes that people only…
