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 agbado (corn). To the…
I just heard the saying, ‘e pepper for mouth’ from the streets. I am not an ‘area boy’, neither am I an ‘area father’. Indeed, the only celebrated area father I know is C. Boy! However, I always say I am streetwise. But something happened to me in 1999 that put my so-called street wisdom…
I have a farmland somewhere in the southwest. We used to cultivate the land there and rear some birds in the not too distant past. However, for reasons that will be explained on another occasion, we no longer work there, at least, for now. Call me an absentee farmer if you like. In my active…
The killings of the unfortunate church goers in Anambra state wasn’t a surprise to me. It wasn’t a surprise given the state of insecurity that, rather than be exceptional, is now the norm in this country. To the doubting Thomases, may I remind them of the boko haram problem which has become, more or less,…
He was quite worried. If you had known him, you would have known that it was quite unusual for him to be bothered by anything. He used to be a very happy guy. He didn’t have anything to worry about. Who would, if you had inherited a cache of money that even your grandchildren couldn’t…
I once said, ordinarily, people would think Lagos politics is so advanced that Lagosians can’t just be cowed by any wannabe. Yeah, this may be true! But I’m afraid if not irritated to admit the fact that Lagosians themselves are generally wannabes serving a life sentence under Bourdillon. I understand it’s as bad as if…
As today’s a Sunday, without being churchy I can answer Nathaniel’s question when he asked in John 1:45, if anything good could come out of Nazareth that good things are coming out of the Nigerian senate. And indeed, I can go on and quote another passage which says, “…the stone rejected by you the builders,…
