The Piper! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Afdb The AfDB suddenly came into the news due to the United State’s insistence to critically look into the financial transactions going on in the bank. The Yankees even resisted the continuation in office of the president who happens to be a Nigerian. That matter has already been overflogged. So, I’m not going…

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Seriously? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: United Nations With the current syllabus being used in our secondary schools, it is very possible for a pupil to finish in our secondary schools without ever being taught biology or even health science. It is that bad! At least, pupils should have a basic understanding of hygiene. It appears the powers that…

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Great Moments! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Daily Trust Saying Nigeria had been good sometime ago could be a surprise to the youth of these days. Then, the factories at Ikeja, Apapa, Iganmu, Ota, Ikeja, Kano, Kaduna, Aba, to mention a few were in full operation. In agriculture, Nigeria was able to feed herself and even export. Those were the…

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Subu Sere! Free-Fall!! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: slideshare Yinyin nda! Were I prophet;Lotteries and bets;Will specialize on;They’re novel turns on! Sere ninu Ile! Rites of passage;Didn’t I presage?Sent me from city;Was I liver- lillied! Ma wo nu re! A whole six feet;Doesn’t matter to it;No respect for length;And, down I went! Ki aso re! Protecting my cell;From getting wet;And, down…

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Mephibosheth! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: goodsalt.com Few books have multiple importance. The holy bible is one of them. It is a book of spiritual, historic and religious values amongst others. I deliberately mentioned religious and spiritual because it is possible for one to be religious without being spiritual. The story of Mephibosheth is recorded in the second book…

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Kabie O Si! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times I hear Twitter says it neither knows Buhari nor the country he governs! In the Murtala/Obasanjo days, everybody that mattered knew Nigeria. In fact, if Nigeria coughed, the whole world would shiver. Those were the finest days of Nigeria’s foreign policy. The USA, UK, etc were all ‘begging’ to be in…

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