Oh yes! Police go arrest taya! I noticed a popularly controversial singer, or is it a controversially famous singer(?) has been running from pillar to post pleading with the EFCC and people who know some people who know those in power that he shouldn’t be arrested because the money he’d been spraying is for the…
Things now differ in Nigeria from when T.M. Aluko wrote his “One man, one matchet” which was published way back in 1964. “One man, one matchetOne woman, one stickOne child, one stone.” Mr Aluko, we’re sorry sir. We regret the fact that we’re disappointing you. We’re no longer in the “stone” age! We’ve certainly moved…
There’s no doubt about the fact that Nigeria’s general elections will take place next year. All hands are on deck to see to the successful prosecution of the elections. Before the incumbent became a tenant of Aso Rock, Nigerians were not satisfied with the performance of the former president. They were also not satisfied with…
While thinking of examples of what our world is going through, I can vividly remember a day when my gramma went to pick me from my elementary school. It was quite unusual. In fact, unusual is an obvious understatement for that particular year. In the first instance, apart from my first day in school, when…
Once upon a time, at church bazaars, big men with legitimate sources of income would go to buy items on auction for a great sum. One Guinea! By the way, a guinea was equal to £1, 1s, or better one pound one. One pound one was equal to twenty one shillings. It was the equivalent…
Suffering disappointment?Want an appointmetwith Eledumare‘cos you’ll be late! We all know you foughtwith long thoughtsyou might not be the winnerdon’t put your finger! In another cinder‘cos ’twill lingermight end in canceryou’re trying to buffer! When you finish your puff,are things less rough?As you finished feg,check your health! Of what use is your lossof those looniesand…
I always remember an infamous speech attributed to a classic example of autocratic irony, the equally infamous dictator Idi Amin Dada. “There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.” I remember it in the sense that he did not deny the existence of freedom of speech; however, there is a subtle…
