Photo credit: clipart There’re several Yoruba sayings which portray respect. Respect could be to an elderly person, a community, a greater nation, and so on. One of them is that no matter how ugly a situation might be, a father would not take his problem to his late child. Another is that an elderly person…
I know Nigerians would learn many lessons from the detention of Sowore. In the first instance, so he thinks he could come and upset the applecart of corruption, kidnapping and cluelessness of the government in power. Haba! He and his cohorts do not know what they are up against. The judge himself is a beneficiary…
Photo credit: Pinterest She’s been there throughout my lifetime. Of course, she’s still there! She comes across as a very simple and jovial woman who takes things in her stride. Wewe- (m m). She’s exuberance personified. She has this, ‘never say die’, attitude, even as a great grandma. My paternal grandpa was called Baba Olusola….
Photo credit: Facebook We attended the same secondary school. He was in form five when I was in form three. He never came back for the HSC, as the higher school certificate class was then called. We never met again. Until today! They did their WASCE in 1977. That means, we saw each other last…
Photo credit: Business Day I just heard the saying, ‘e pepper for mouth’ from the streets. I am not an ‘area boy’, neither am I an ‘area father’. Indeed, the only celebrated area father I know is C. Boy! However, I always say I am streetwise. But something happened to me in 1999 that put…
Photo credit: News Hamster I have a farmland somewhere in the southwest. We used to cultivate the land there and rear some birds in the not too distant past. However, for reasons that will be explained on another occasion, we no longer work there, at least, for now. Call me an absentee farmer if you…
Photo credit: Channels TV The killings of the unfortunate church goers in Anambra state wasn’t a surprise to me. It wasn’t a surprise given the state of insecurity that, rather than be exceptional, is now the norm in this country. To the doubting Thomases, may I remind them of the boko haram problem which has…
