Opinion

  I’m not a mathematician, but I know that the six Yoruba state governors, in the actual sense, are really less than half of a whole number. We all know the federal government is of little use to the common man. I stand to be corrected, we’ve never had it so bad at the center….

I’d always considered myself a strong man. Now, I had usually been surrounded by women. Yeah! On my maternal side, apart from mom, I had this troika of grandmas. One was Mama Ghana. She was my biological grandmother. A no nonsense woman, she didn’t have the time for my shenanigans. She called a spade its…

So, killings are now the order of the day in Nigeria. I really wonder how we got to this state of things in Nigerian society. In the Nigeria of my childhood, criminality was scorned. There’s no society that’s crime-free, but the frequency of crimes in Nigeria is alarming. Those involving human lives are simply pathetic….

Sons of men are celebrating today. They say today is International Women’s Day! Hmm… There’s even a saying among them that if you educate a woman, you’re educating a generation. So, if you educate a man, you must be educating generations. But then, there’re women that calling them women of substance is an obvious understatement….

It was such a delight watching the president of African Development Bank and recipient of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo Award roll out the plans of the institution and its affiliates for Nigeria’s messed up system. However, in a situation where the authorities are saying hunger is not a distress, are we ready for the plans?…

While I don’t really like spreading negative stories about Nigeria, it has occurred to me that the people seem to be self-destructing. Or, how can anyone explain people hawking their consciences to the highest bidder? It wouldn’t have been a surprise if this had been limited to the ill-educated. However, even the so-called educated people…

I thank God for His little mercies! When I say God, I don’t necessarily mean the Christian God. That’s because I’m aware of the fact that there are many religions and some people don’t even believe in the existence of any Supreme Being. Indeed, we are gods! When I was in school, I traversed various…