Photo credit: Facebook When I left Nigeria in 2018, the only book I took with me was “You Must Set Forth at Dawn,” by Wole Soyinka. Incidentally, I bought the book at the OOPL Abeokuta for a sum that set me back by some thousands of naira. Looking at the book now, I’m seeing where…
Photo credit: Multidox Kizito Egeonu must have graduated from the University of Jos. He was a 400 level medical student in 2009. That year must have been a happy one for him, too. That was when he won the unbelievable sum of a million dollars in a promo. I didn’t say a million naira. He…
Photo credit: Premium Times There are some really thoughtful sayings in the English language that will make a person think that maybe the English borrowed them from the ever beautiful Yoruba language. One of them is cutting off the nose to spite the face. It is described as an axpression to needlessly self-destructive over reaction…
Photo credit: the Punch There’s a Yoruba saying that goes with these times. ‘Kekere n’imale ti nko omo e l’aso’. I’m sure those who have been reading me will long have realised that I don’t have any religious bias. I’m saying that just in case some are feeling threatened. The meaning of the saying is…
Cartoon of a man urinating on the Bible. Photo credit: @tylyorbo There’s a story in Yoruba land and it goes thus: The ubiquitous tortoise once had a wife. Unfortunately, tortoise, being the lazy type, it gets rewarded, for everyone of its actions rather handsomely. It so happens that the tortoise’s father in law is a…
Photo credit: Premium Times People who are familiar with our world definitely know that no condition is permanent. This is more so in the so called developing world. By the way, the term ‘developing’ is a polite way of calling countries underdeveloped. Nigeria happens to be one of such. The table has turned for the…
Photo credit: Facebook Nigerians do not recognise talents when they see them. How can they? The hunger that even those that have means of getting their daily bread are facing has made them blind. If those who are working are hungry, what will happen to the many who are jobless? Asko! If gold rust, what…
