Photo credit: history.com There’s no doubt about the fact that if I wake up in the morning and the first person I see is Trump, I’ll go back to bed. That’s because Trump is an example of ‘eni aijiri’. That is a person that one must not meet first thing in the morning. Maybe those…
Photo credit: the Leadership Sometime in August, the National Examinations Council (NECO) invited examiners to mark the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination theory papers. The examinations were held in May/June. The examiners went to the marking centres from far and near. Most of them were not after monetary gains but they wanted to be more abreast…
Photo credit: LinkedIn This post’s inspiration is from an earlier one by the wordsmith, Odolaye Aremu. One other thing about the man is his graciousness in owning a free range asylum. I’m proud to belong to this asylum of thinking people! On March 15, 44 BCE, the popular emperor Julius Caesar was attacked by a…
Photo credit: Daily Guardian Canadian Prime Minister has survived another parliamentary confidence vote, the second in less than a week. Reuters reports that the opposition parties have vowed to keep his Liberal government alive. In the House of Commons, Lawmakers voted 207-121 to defeat the official opposition Conservative Party’s bid to topple Trudeau. After almost nine years in…
Photo credit: Facebook 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…
Photo credit: the Guardian Let’s roll out the drums and celebrate.Oh yes, why shouldn’t we? Our naira is now greater than the dollar.Our oil is now worth two hundred dollars per barrel.We now grow our own food.We export rice to China.Palm produce to Malaysia.Every farm has irrigation.Every able bodied man is employed.The sick and old…
Photo credit: But lama Yeah, Nigeria should have been celebrating her independence today. She got her flag independence on this day in 1960. But apart from government officials and their partners in crime, who in Nigeria can really celebrate with reckless abandon? I know we should thank God for His little mercies over us. But…
