Photo credit: the Punch About two weeks ago, I came back to Abeokuta around ten thirty in the night. What I saw that night was unbecoming. I felt it happened because I came back so late in the night. Tonight, I came back some sixty minutes earlier at nine thirty. The situation was only slightly…
Photo credit: Business Day If there’s another entry into this world, I’ll not only come back as a Nigerian, I’ll come back as a Yoruba. Indeed, I’ll come back as a Nigerian because within it is the largest concentration of the Yoruba. The Yoruba is ever wise! That could be a story for another day….
Photo credit: Pulse Nigeria It’s no secret that I crave Nollywood movies as well as real African music. The fact that most of the practitioners are acquiring education is particularly enchanting. There’s no doubting the fact that the industries are changing. However, methinks we should begin to think of appealing to our people through those…
Society creates a variety of people. There are some who resign themselves to faith even when they do know they are better than the rulers. To criticize such leadership is a taboo for them. But there is always a minority that’s sincerely repulsed by crass in high places. As far as this particular group is…
Photo credit: Oklahoma Ag I can remember someone on a campaign for the 2nd Republic ruling party in Nigeria then saying about a rival who was a vegetarian that, in the confines of his home, he ate meat more than a wolf. The man later became our hope for 1993, but eventually, the president that…
Photo credit: Blackpast I have known the Nobel Laureate, Prof Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, who we fondly call Uncle Wole, Kongi, Prof and WS, for almost as long as I have known myself. He and my dad, Bola Ige were very close friends. They must have met at University College Ibadan, UCI- now University of Ibadan….
Photo credit: Thisdaylive Not many people might know he was approached to be President to assuage what they saw as the injustice done to the south west due to the regretful annulment of June 12. But he was honest enough to know he couldn’t serve as a good party man. While he and others were…
