Ojuelegba! Crossroads!! – Adewale Sobowale

Onikaluku jeje ewure! We remain joyous;In dark smelly colors,Of rabid corruption,Which barks confusion! Onikaluku jeje agutan! Stead of a Nigerian state;We do have a barbarian tale;We continue to mourn;Our future for so long! Olurombi jeje omo re! We’ve been hoping for youth;Us to save from loot-ers! With arrant yahooing;Plonk goes our hoping! Omo re a…

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Legalize It! – Adewale Sobowale

The year was 1976. It had been recorded the previous year. That was when an album was released by Peter Tosh. ‘Legalise it’ it was called. The album is all about cannabis. Particularly legalising its use medically. Now, you might have suspected that we’re not known to be people who will leave what should be…

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Strength! – Adewale Sobowale

At times like this when we see people who have turned something that could have been embarrassing into an act of strength or courage we should sound the cymbals in their praise. I wouldn’t know where a blackmailer got the Waka Queen, Salawa Abeni’s nude photographs from. The fact is that the person contacted her…

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Is It a Curse? Adewale Sobowale

Why is it that only a few Nigerian statesmen are getting it right? I just watched the API-organized ‘The Rush to Canada’ by Nigerians. The most pathetic thing was when one Dr Bassey, who represented Abike Dabiri, implied that if people in the northwest of Nigeria were not running away from the country – rather…

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