I’d always considered myself a strong man. Now, I had usually been surrounded by women. Yeah! On my maternal side, apart from mom, I had this troika of grandmas. One was Mama Ghana. She was my biological grandmother. A no nonsense woman, she didn’t have the time for my shenanigans. She called a spade its…
Sons of men are celebrating today. They say today’s International Women’s Day! Hmm… There’s even a saying among them that if you educate a woman, you’re educating a generation. So, if you educate a man, you must be educating generations. But then, there’re women that calling them women of substance is an unfavourable understatement. This…
Lucky ones went with a backpack; Others with only the clothes on their backs, since their lives depended on it! When they arrived an unknown land, some had to sleep rough, with no loonie, and neither food nor water! No border remembers their names No anthems rise when they stand, The wind never asks for…
I was at a naming ceremony today. To say I wasn’t the happiest will be an understatement of the year. The parents are so-called Christians. Why I doubt their Christianity will soon be apparent. By the way, I used to think it was only the Pentecostal churches that weren’t doing things the way we used…
In my secondary school days, I was a major fan of the James Hadley Chase thrillers. What attracted me to the series was the fact that the writer of the series himself was a ‘dribbler’ because you never knew where a particular a story would end until you finished reading it. One of the series…
I thank God for His little mercies! When I say God, I don’t necessarily mean the Christian God. That’s because I’m aware of the fact that there are many religions and some people don’t even believe in the existence of any Supreme Being. Indeed, we are gods! When I was in school, I traversed various…
Some people are quite uncomfortable with the alleged increase in some of the services rendered by the Lagos State government. Maybe those folks have forgotten that a delicious stew doesn’t come cheap, as my people will say. Obe to dun owo lo pa! It is said now that foreign countries are coming into Nigeria to…
