If I had the opportunity, I would have asked the Nigerian President what happened during the lockdown to warrant easing it from next Monday. I would have even asked him if he had succeeded in getting an okay from COVID-19 that it must only strike at night. That would have informed him of a curfew…
There’s no doubt that Nollywood – Nigeria’s version of Hollywood – is going places. With the number of Nigerians progressively committing the offence of japaing, the sky is the beginning for our thespians. The movies are doing a lot in reminding one of home. But there are quite a few things to be done. For…
Hey, would you want black-eyed Susan?I’ll prefer Canna,my mom wants Hibiscusand Papa loves Lavender! We can have all,since it’s summer!We gonna have long long dayswhich will be scorchingly sunny! Off with heavy layersof wears in wintry days!Some wore five jackets,others three trousersplus thermal coats! They still frozesince cold couldn’t be kept at bay!Times like thoseone…
In the night,we do eat light!But so many neverdid lunch ever! At dawn, workersand, even loiterersdo get up from cotsleaving wives untouched! Muraina wakes Muezzin,Gabriel’s a Christian,Owonikoko a traditionalist,Jafojo – a free spirit! All are unitedin this businessof making a concretejungle of our cities! it appearstheir own Goddoes snore in sleepand needs to be woken!…
Several sites exist in Cambodia, where more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge during its rule of the country between 1975 and 1979. They are appropriately named the Cambodian Killing Fields. An estimated 500,000 thousand and one million Rwandans were eliminated within 100 days. This took place between 7…
I had decided not to post anything about COVID-19 again, especially given Nigeria’s untidy management of the scourge. However, when a handshake moves to the elbow, it becomes a wrestle. The death of an old-school buddy has made me shatter my shell. He attended the reputable Baptist Academy, Obanikoro, in Lagos, where he was a…
There are KINGS, and there are kings. The Oba of Benin is probably the most respected king in the Southwest. And why is this so? I believe it’s because he doesn’t make himself available for any event. He is not meddlesome. He minds his own business. That is not to say he doesn’t care about…
