‘To speak of peace and harmony now would be treason to the dead.’ – Rose Schneiderman ‘To keep Nigeria one, justice must be done!’ – Wole Soyinka I just thought we should look back and consider what could have gone wrong with us as a people. That is, of course, if we are really a…
There’s this squirrel that normally comes around my bus stop. I believe it’s resident around there. Whenever it’s around or whenever I happen to be around, it comes, wagging it’s bushy tail. Some people, usually whites, give it some peanuts and it even performs some stunts for them. The stunts couldn’t have been for me…
The APC and it’s candidate are sending a cryptic message to Nigerians! But most of us are busy singing, Mi rí kẹ̀kẹ́ kanTéré àjà ló ba lẹ̀ tereÒpobí pobíÒpobì pobìÒrí polóbì oTéréÀjà ló ba lẹ̀Téré! It’s unlike the cyle or the horse our parents made us to see the unforgettable Awo riding in the sky…
Abigail Marshal Katung, winner in the 2019 Leeds City Council elections. Councillor for Little London and Woodhouse Ward Of Leeds City Council. A video is currently going viral of a Nigerian politician. The video made by the BBC (Yoruba) is of a Nigerian female politician who recently won elections in the UK. In the video,…
Did you know that most countries do not require educational certificates to be elected for any political post? What most countries require are citizenship, having lived in the country for a certain number of years and a specific age. Nigeria’s requirement for educational certificates might be a fallout from our colonial past when it was…
I’m the most respectful person. But then, there’s a catch to it, ‘All things being equal’. In any case, respect begets respect. Nobody is begging anyone to offer themselves to serve the people. They must have something to offer the people in terms of qualitative services. If they don’t have anything to offer, then they…
A bull is never friends with the slaughter slab. He knows the place signifies its end. One other thing a bull is perpetually afraid of is anything red. Red stands for bloodshed. So a bull feels it in the subconscious that nothing red is too good for it However, Lagosians tend to believe that the…
