Sugar is used to sweeten things. However, when taken too much, it might cause hemorrhoids. According to stories being peddled around by those who knew him, the late Temitope Olatoye, a.k.a. sugar had always had it coming. He had attempted to be the students union president of the Federal College of Education in Osiele, a…
The Nigerian election season is fading out. So many people who had been involved in the season film would certainly be awakened to the reality of daily life. Brothers who had stopped greeting their brothers because of political differences would, hopefully, start seeing the reasons why they should not cut the ropes of kinship. Sisters…
The news that the British Government intends building a new facility at the famous Kirikiri Prisons is a great one. Kilo dun bi arun iba, what’s as good as fever! Our erstwhile colonial masters are always there for us. They know it that we don’t just have the means to take care of our teeming…
There is so much hunger in the land now. It’s so serious that we Yoruba, that were so proud that we would rather die than beg, are now comfortable with the beggars in our midst. Go to the eateries, you will find some people loitering around. They generally close in on you when you have…
I have known Ebute Meta since I started to sense my existence. In fact, I believe my mom has been taking me there since infancy. When I came into an awareness of my being, I was carried away by the well-laid streets, the street lamps, the clean gutters, the waste disposal system, and so on….
A long time ago, when the eyes were still on the knees. There was a woman who was then barren. The woman’s name was Olurombi. Meanwhile, childless women had been going to the Iroko tree to plead for children. When they went, they would pledge that if the Iroko gave them children they would…
I’m not a mathematician, but I know that the six Yoruba state governors, in the actual sense, are really less than half of a whole number. We all know the federal government is of little use to the common man. I stand to be corrected, we’ve never had it so bad at the center….
