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 offer…
I had known Ebute Meta since I started having a sense of my existence. In fact, I believe my mom had been taking me there since infancy. When I came into an awareness of my being, I was carried away by the well laid out streets, the street lamps, the clean gutters, the waste disposal…
When I was a kid, I can still remember situations when for one reason or the other, I refused to eat. It normally happened when I was annoyed. Whenever that happened, my mother wouldn’t utter any word. She would go have her own meal and for what I then thought was an overkill, she would…
Our people in Nigeria seem to have resigned to fate. I say this with a lot of distaste. Distaste because I just feel that under no circumstances, must a dislike for evil deeds be stopped. But our people seem to have lost their voices. I’m referring specifically to the recent kidnap of over 200 pupils…
I’ve long become convinced that human beings – no matter their pigmentation, economic situation, ability or otherwise, height or weight, are either good or bad! For that reason, I’ve been castigated by some who are blind to what I’m seeing! Human beings are rainbows, each of us a fragment of colour. Humanity shines when its…
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. Even…
So, killings are now the order of the day in Nigeria. I really wonder how we got to this state of things in Nigerian society. In the Nigeria of my childhood, criminality was scorned. There’s no society that’s crime-free, but the frequency of crimes in Nigeria is alarming. Those involving human lives are simply pathetic….
