Itire!!! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Business Day Most of my childhood and relatively innocent days were spent at Itire. Itire of those days was a sleepy community in the backwaters of Musin and Lawanson. Musin was known for its market places and notorious for its aluta tradition. Lawanson on its own part was a pathway to civilisation as…

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Restructuring? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: intervention People have said a lot about Nigeria needing to be restructured. Yes, I agree so. However, where should we start? Personally, I believe we should start from the thought process. In other words, we should begin from the group pedestal. By this, I mean we should first think of ourselves as human…

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Do They Need It? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Global giving I generally feel concerned for the aged when it’s their birthday. You see, their children and sometimes even grandchildren will not fail to prepare themselves for the occasion. The ice cold drinks and deliciously prepared food items will be competing with each other. A band or dj will be at hand…

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Quiet Please! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Adobe stock All these talks about appointments of media people shows the lack of seriousness inherent in our political space. In the first instance, both of them are eminently qualified to occupy the respective posts. The last time I checked, the political appointees who appointed them had the right to appoint just anyone…

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Shambolic Lockdown! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: CNN The lockdown being forced on people by the Nigerian government has further reinforced the belief by some of us that Mr Buhari’s government is an Animal Farm. In the book, ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell it’s stated that, ‘All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.’ The sentence is…

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Odun Eegun! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Cable When a child seems to be selfishly savouring a particular item, the Yoruba are quick to remind him that, ‘On ton tan lodun eegun, omo alagbaa nbo wa fekuru jeko’. The simple meaning of that is that everyday is not Christmas. You know there was once a goggled Abacha in Nigeria….

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