Photo credit: Nairametrics Someone in the National Youth Service Corps said recently that the organisation is being overstretched. I believe that was an understatement of this fast ending year. The days when Youth Corps members are called up for service almost as soon as they write their last papers have certainly gone. Of course, anybody…
Photo credit: Facebook ‘To speak of peace and harmony now would be treason to the dead.’ – Rose Schneiderman ‘To keep Nigeria one, justice must be done!’ – Wole Soyinka I just thought we should look back and consider what could have gone wrong with us as a people. That is, of course, if we…
Photo credit: Live Science There’s this squirrel that normally comes around my bus stop. I believe it’s resident around there. Whenever it’s around or whenever I happen to be around, it comes, wagging it’s bushy tail. Some people, usually whites, give it some peanuts and it even performs some stunts for them. The stunts couldn’t…
The APC and it’s candidate are sending a cryptic message to Nigerians! But most of us are busy singing, Mi rí kẹ̀kẹ́ kanTéré àjà ló ba lẹ̀ tereÒpobí pobíÒpobì pobìÒrí polóbì oTéréÀjà ló ba lẹ̀Téré! It’s unlike the cyle or the horse our parents made us to see the unforgettable Awo riding in the sky…
Photo credit: the Guardian A video is currently going viral of a Nigerian politician. The video made by the BBC (Yoruba) is of a Nigerian female politician who recently won elections in the UK. In the video, the chubby cheeked woman is saying, there was no spending of money before she was elected. In other…
Photo credit: the Nation Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary has come and gone. However, so many thoughts reverberated during the period. One is some people are saying Nigeria is not good, yet others are making it. I just wanted to ask, what’s the percentage of people that are making it? Apart from that, should it be…
Photo credit: Nigeria Constitution Did you know that most countries do not require educational certificates to be elected for any political post? What most countries require are citizenship, having lived in the country for a certain number of years and a specific age. Nigeria’s requirement for educational certificates might be a fallout from our colonial…
