Photo credit: The nation I love Yoruba, this song keeps ringing in my ears: Jagunjagun lo nbo;Olori ogunko gbodo k’ehin ogun;jagunjagun lo nbo! A warrior is coming along;A generalissimodaren’t stay behindA warrior is coming! It’s even good that the field marshal is a drummer. He would sound the bata-fuji war drums. The troops won’t lack…
Come to think of it, isn’t emilokan an insult? He’s apparently not thinking of the general good of all Nigerians. Neither is he thinking of how best to rule the country. All he wants is to satisfy his selfish interest. And, of course, to boost his CV. I don’t think we need people who’ll be…
Photo credit: TV Insider There’re some places or incidents that will never cease to confound me. The first one is death. The mere fact that the ultimate reaper doesn’t care if you were sick or not, once it’s your appointed time to leave this side of the earth, you don’t have a choice. The second…
Photo credit: clipart There’re several Yoruba sayings which portray respect. Respect could be to an elderly person, a community, a greater nation, and so on. One of them is that no matter how ugly a situation might be, a father would not take his problem to his late child. Another is that an elderly person…
I know Nigerians would learn many lessons from the detention of Sowore. In the first instance, so he thinks he could come and upset the applecart of corruption, kidnapping and cluelessness of the government in power. Haba! He and his cohorts do not know what they are up against. The judge himself is a beneficiary…
Photo credit: Pinterest She’s been there throughout my lifetime. Of course, she’s still there! She comes across as a very simple and jovial woman who takes things in her stride. Wewe- (m m). She’s exuberance personified. She has this, ‘never say die’, attitude, even as a great grandma. My paternal grandpa was called Baba Olusola….
Photo credit: Facebook We attended the same secondary school. He was in form five when I was in form three. He never came back for the HSC, as the higher school certificate class was then called. We never met again. Until today! They did their WASCE in 1977. That means, we saw each other last…
