Anytime I look at the situation in Nigeria in relation to Nigerians ourselves, I can’t help but laugh.See most of us now, we’re regretting installing this government. But if we had just accepted our faults and hidden our tails between our legs like poor rain drenched dogs, nobody would have raised eyebrows. But trust the…
I understands soldiers are being unpatriotically used to guard herders and their animals to farms in Ogun state. Of course, when they get to the farms, the labors of farmers go to waste because the animals have a field day munching what their owners didn’t work for. In several cases, farmers are beaten and subjected…
Photo credit: Yale Medicine The protests by anti – vaxxers against the taking of COVID-19 vaccines in the Western world is, no doubt, leading to a situation where people will be yearning for the right to die or right to commit suicide. They may have a point by saying the vaccines are not necessarily going…
Hmm… Some years ago;I wrote on my balding pate;Another year, on the greying hair I did write! I never knew growing to be a senior was yet to be done with me;I’ve started growing a grey tuft on my moustache! I do adore my moustache because it’s especially good for ferreting out impurities from liquids;I’ll…
Experts in education have made us know that people first think in their mother tongues. Is that not a way of saying, you may succeed in taking a man out of the bush but you just can’t succeed in taking the bush out of the man? Many of our kids, in Nigeria, go to schools…
Kindly pardon my use of words. I’m not unnecessarily using poetic license. However, when certain things keep making senseless recurs, I’m always at a loss on how to describe them. Some people have said that some anjonu bring those words, anjonu meaning spirits. Of course, not those that a former presidential aide says are permanent…
When I was younger, I was used to a person who was slow in running errands being described as, ‘baby kingsway’. At least, up to the early eighties there used to be some merchantile stores in the major city centres of Nigeria. Some of them were Kingsway, Leventis, Chellarams, Chanrai, etc. Most of them used…
