Photo credit: the Guardian Seated on the floor at a jazz festival in Place Des Art at Montreal, I couldn’t but miss Baba 70. Not that the jszzists aren’t trying their best, but their best is definitely not good enough. Not enough for an African who had a lot of opportunities to listen and dance…
Photo credit: Tribune So, we’re all infuriated with some allegation of abuse. We should be! But then, isn’t it a case of, oku n sunkun oku, that is the dead mourning the dead? I say so because if we really look at it, which Nigerian can truthfully say they are enjoying in this country. Save…
Photo credit: Tribune I had wanted to let this pass. However, a video clip I watched on WhatsApp prompted me to change my mind. In the clip, an Ijebu man who is abroad shows how empty his street is of rams. In Nigeria, rams are tied to poles and trees outside homes awaiting execution after…
Photo credit: PM News It should no longer be news that Mr Nnamdi Kanu has been arrested. It should be no news either that he was arraigned before a court with dispatch. Even with his arrest, the naira is now equal to the pound sterling. Further, his arrest has brought food to the empty tables…
Photo credit: Premium Times What’s all this fretting about in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. I’m referring to the rumpus between the wife of the former governor who happened to have died and the state government. I’m not apportioning blames to anyone simply because I see the katakata as nothing but medicine after death. The…
28b, how can I ever forget you? Was it not in you I spent childhood? I can still remember the adults drinking lager when I was a toddler. Mind you, it would be after the day’s work. Olori or Baba or Baba Wa was so generous. He never discriminated. I can remember Luke, the Igbo…
Photo credit: Marriage Matters Her eyes are misty! Why won’t they be! From the social media, to her friends and family, everyone has been commenting on the trending rape allegations. This has opened up the pains she thought she had successfully buried. The seventeen year-old virgin and a pastor! Hmmm….she was ten years older and…
