Photo credit: Thisdaylive Tomorrow, Nigerians will observe the nation’s 61st-year dependence. In actual fact, I don’t think there has ever been a year when the chips have been so much against the country. Instability has plagued the nation to a standstill. I hear in some areas, people dare not travel outside a 25km radius for…
Photo credit: Nairaland Although I’m not a particularly good dancer, I do enjoy great music. I love African music because it generally has meaning. That explains my love for the talking drum. It’s called the talking drum because it has messages embedded in it. One of the messages is, ‘To ba buru tan, iwo nikan…
Photo credit: Dreams Time You see when a person has been immersed in series of problems and he doesn’t know what to do again, one could safely say they’ve been infested with, ‘problemses’. Such people are accidents waiting to happen. Unfortunately, the more they think negatively about their so called problems, the more other problems…
The novel, ‘Cry the Beloved Country’ was written by Allan Paton in 1948 just before the inhumane apartheid policy was introduced in South Africa. I should think a quote from chapter 12 of the book is eminently relevant to our present situation in Nigeria. ‘ Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is…
Photo credit: x.com A certain Nigerian ‘big boy’ was recently arrested for kidnapping. In the first instance, although he allegedly confessed, that can only be used as evidence in a properly constituted court of law. It is for the courts to determine whether he is guilty or not. Second, people have been fast to link…
I just thought we should compare the military government of Mr Buhari to his executive presidency. It’s true the Shagari administration which Buhari toppled really made a mess of the economy. But was the Buhari administration well positioned to bail out the Nigerian people? Well, the military used its usual force of repression to cow…
Photo credit: UNDP There’s this fable about an elephant who had been terrorizing a community. The people then decided to make him the King so that he might probably stop giving the community hassles. But then, the community was wise enough to have sunken a ditch below the enthronement platform. The people were singing, Ao…
