Photo credit: BBC I commiserate with fellow Egbas and our guests over the floods which happened today. I’m comforting those who lost their relatives to the deadly floods. I know it’s so painful to lose loved ones, particularly unnecessarily. But who are we to question God? Of course, so many people lost properties, but let’s…
Photo credit: Shutterstock People with sense,Won’t ever touch,Next level! EvenWith ten-foot pole! Erin ka releO wa j’Oba!Erin yeye,Erin yeye! Not my people,With theirEducated povertyThey would ratherCall bull buodaTo partake Erin kareleO wa j’ObaErin yeyeErin yeye! Yeah!To partake,Even in theMost miserlyOf crumbs,Of their ownCommonwealth! Erin kareleO wa j’Oba!Erin yeyeErin yeye! Discipline is it,Leading toQuiet, even ofThe…
Photo credit: Daily Post The sad loss of Pa Fasoranti’s daughter, like all other unnecessary deaths, is most regrettable. May God comfort all those who have lost their loved ones to the terrorists. But one thing that keeps troubling me is the reaction of the presidency to this particular untimely death. Why is it that…
Photo credit: Leonardo Cendamo Did you know he was offered the presidency of Nigeria after the deaths of the butcher and MKO? Was he not the one who allegedly held up the radio station at Ibadan and told SLA in an announcement that he should go? Was he not the one that visited Ojukwu before…
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…
