For two hundred years, we have been told that the Fulani jihad was a religious reformation. For a hundred years, we have been told that the 1914 Amalgamation was an act of administrative convenience. For sixty years, we have been told that Nigeria’s problems are our own fault, tribalism, corruption, laziness. Dele Ogun’s “Culprits: The…
Nigeria is said to be a secular state. That’s theoretical! However, in practice, the Nigerian state is religious. Or how do we explain the fact that apart from having churches and mosques, government involves itself with the staffing of these bastions of religiousity. In the past, government was sponsoring religious pilgrimages. I’m told that even…
Oh, how I wish I could tell whoever offends me to forget it. You see, when a person is brooding over a certain person’s misdeed to them, they end up suffering much more than the offender. In any case, the latter might not even know! How long do we have to spend on earth? The…
Come off it!That’s my response to a friend who told me it’s pay day for some of our excretable excellencies. They really don’t belong to us again. It’s not as if we are doing yanga. But considering how they’ve been behaving since they went into the prison called state house, I wouldn’t think they’ll feel…
I really couldn’t believe when I heard the news of people being offered incentives to encourage them to help themselves and the community. Some people are sceptical in taking the covid vaccines. Meanwhile.the vaccines – apparently – do have a shelf life after which they might be less potent. It’s now a case of if…
When I was much younger, there was, opposite the then Leventis Stores in Marina, Lagos what was known as Quay Side. True, it was a place where ships berthed and sailors did sailor-like pastimes of womanising, smoking Indian hemp, drinking – sometimes to a stupor, those of them that wanted to listen and even dance…
Are we not tired of being dribbled here, there and beyond by unskilled footballers manifesting as our crude politicians? Yes, crude, very crude! Was it not in the last elections that people were bribed with kulikuli and gari. That could be interpreted in various ways. First, the bulk of Nigerians are so cheap that they…
