Photo credit: Platform Times That the federal government has declared Monday, the third of October a public holiday is stale news. The holiday is well-deserved, isn’t it? When an economy is in a so-called recession, we should commit all our affairs to God and just rest. That is OK because God has not given us…
Photo credit: WLRN When we look at the world, we wouldn’t have any choice but to agree with the Yoruba who have concluded that, ‘ogun l’aye’. The world is a battle front! It’s therefore a surprise when people vent their anger arising from various types of frustration on others. The interesting thing is the fact…
Photo credit: Daily Post It was a honeyish Saturday, the one my people will call a Saturday oloyin. Instead of choosing boredom, I chose to wine and dine in a restaurant. The attractions were definitely many. Right from the location in a mall, to the neatly laid tables, to the cool music and even the…
Photo credit: Thisdaylive Tomorrow, Nigerians will observe the nation’s 61st-year dependence. In actual fact, I don’t think there has ever been a year when the chips have been so much against the country. Instability has plagued the nation to a standstill. I hear in some areas, people dare not travel outside a 25km radius for…
Photo credit: Nairaland Although I’m not a particularly good dancer, I do enjoy great music. I love African music because it generally has meaning. That explains my love for the talking drum. It’s called the talking drum because it has messages embedded in it. One of the messages is, ‘To ba buru tan, iwo nikan…
Photo credit: Dreams Time You see when a person has been immersed in series of problems and he doesn’t know what to do again, one could safely say they’ve been infested with, ‘problemses’. Such people are accidents waiting to happen. Unfortunately, the more they think negatively about their so called problems, the more other problems…
The novel, ‘Cry the Beloved Country’ was written by Allan Paton in 1948 just before the inhumane apartheid policy was introduced in South Africa. I should think a quote from chapter 12 of the book is eminently relevant to our present situation in Nigeria. ‘ Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is…
