Photo credit: Premium Times Moses Adejumo, aka Baba Sala was the quintessential comic of my childhood. In one of his plays, a new wife of his, Kariile, does something Baba Sala finds unpardonable. He then offers her for sale to any willing buyer.‘Gbanjo,Gba-gba-ngba,Gbanjo,Bi mo ri ma raOmoge di toro!Kariile di toro!!! In the second republic,…
Photo credit: Channels TV The Yoruba have a saying, ‘Oju l’alakan fi n so’ri’. That’s one couldn’t be too careful. Yeah! At these times when even spouses should be wary of each other. When parent to child relationships could be sacrificed for cheap gains of naira. And, when friends could betray one another for material…
Photo credit: Facebook ‘Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death’. – Haruki Mukarami The above quotation by the Japanese writer, Haruki Mukarami, shows how he sees death. He sees death as a continuation of life. The Yoruba worldview believes that people only…
Photo credit: CNET The announcement by Nigeria’s minister of aviation Hadi Sirika that Nigeria may begin assembling air planes by 2023 further cements the emptiness of Mr Buhari’s government. Even if it’s for free, I wouldn’t think a government of a so-called developing country that knows what it’s doing should dare venture into air plane…
Photo credit: the Punch I don’t really think there should be a presidential election in Nigeria come 2023! The bourdillonaire of bullion van fame should be selected by consensus. Why waste time of our good people when the guy has so much money. Like he once said in Osun state, he has more money than…
Photo credit: Business Day A certain governor in the southwest has declared that it takes a lot of courage to be earning less than $24,000 and be presiding over a budget of more than $500,000. He is also ‘visibly’ worried by the poor take home pay of civil servants. In the first instance, I wouldn’t…
Photo credit: Nigeria Nostalgia Mine was a very lively childhood. I would say I had a pretentious innocence. That’s because I actually knew much more than the adults knew that I did. And, I’m suspecting that at least half of the youngsters of those days had a semblance of that too. You know, school was…
