Opinion

I was seated in my usual place looking for network when the owner of the bar slotted Fela’s Original Sufferhead into the music box. For the benefit of those who didn’t know, the album was released in 1981. It is a great disappointment that the record is still relevant today! Isn’t it? I then looked…

I’m amused at the feelings of people who feel it’s an affront to womanhood for a cross-dresser to be crowned as the best-dressed woman. The crowning was done at the premiere of a movie and not at a fashion show. The best thing for those who are feeling annoyed would have been to organize their…

COVID 19 could be spreading all over the globe. But there’s no doubting the fact that it has exposed the various aspects of people, all over the world, laying claims to being human. When I was a tot, we, more or less, lived a communal life. And that was in Lagos of the mid sixties….

I just thought I should share various countries’ or even regions’ reactions to the COVID 19 plague. It’s a known fact that political leaders in the western nations are bent on giving palliatives to assist their respective peoples. It’s also a known a fact that in most democratic western nations, there’s a separation of powers…

Having watched the Iwuanyawu video clip severally, my thoughts are, The man definitely didn’t speak off the cuff ! Somewhere in the speech, when he mentioned “Yoruba,” he stopped the sentence and said, “They are political rascals.” As I said, I watched the video with rapid attention and severally too. A Yoruba will be right…

I gather the petrol distributor has been sentenced to jail. She’s to remain behind bars for twenty seven months. While praising the justice system for doing the needful, I would have thought it better for justice to have some comical effects. For instance, if she couldn’t serve as petroleum minister, why not as a gas…

At the rate the Yoruba people are going, the number of bastards will eventually be much more than those born genuinely! Well, should ‘genuinely’ even be the right word? Why? So many proponents of Oduduwa or Odua or Yoruba or, even, Lamurudu Republic are ‘short fused’ (remember that phrase?) when others differ from their opinion….