Ah!Obinrin bi okunrin! I grew up to know her as a woman with lots of milk of human kindness. She’s kind to a fault! Kind but firm!! When I was in elementary school, I used to go and spend all vacations with my grandparents in Ebute Meta. There, I was always met with joy. I…
Photo credit: Channels TV I read it somewhere yesterday morning that the ruling general in Nigeria would be addressing the nation yesterday. In my nationalistic enthusiasm, I didn’t bother to cross check from other sources. Some may question my claims to being nationalistic. I don’t have any excuse for being a patriot. Indeed, it’s those…
Photo credit: Star Kings TV Some of the most pained in the present situation the globe has found itself in are certainly side chicks. Most of them are so used to their ATMs or Mugus, as their scatterbrained spenders are called in Nigerianese. Only pastors who minister only unto themselves wouldn’t have seen the various…
Photo credit: The Cable The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria is against Nigeria’s importation of Madagascar’s COVID 19 herbal drug. Well, there’s a Yoruba saying which is k’okunrin r’ejo, k’okunrin pa, ani k’ejo sa ti ku, which means the end will always justify the means. In other words, we all want this deadly virus to be…
Photo credit: Vanguard Nigeria There was a rumor that the Federal Government of Buhari introduced a lockdown due to a fresh strain of COVID 19! I wanted to eat my hat for the government’s ‘good deed’. It would have been an exemplary deed by the baba London in Aso Rock. It takes a courageous government…
That the governor of Rivers state of Nigeria ordered the demolition of two hotels is no longer news. According to unconfirmed sources, he personally led demolition squad! Of course, in a state where there’s enough accommodation for everyone, the governor is free to do as he pleases, even without a court order. In a land…
When I think of Nigeria, I tend to think of the infamous quote of the apartheid president of South Africa, Pieter Botha ‘This uprising will bring out the beast in us.’ He was forced to utter those words in the dying days of apartheid when people in Southern Africa stepped up efforts to rid their…
