The Morning After! – Adewale Sobowale

The federal government of Nigeria has banned codeine. The move came after a BBC report on drug trafficking cum addiction. Everyone is now drug free. The environment itself is palatable because there’s no more drug trafficking. With the ban on codeine, all the youths are now on a withdrawal process. And, they’ve all become SU…

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Of Dignity! – Adewale Sobowale

COVID 19 is turning out as an exposure of the rooster’s anus. But what I’m particularly concerned about is the dignity of who Americans call Common Joe. I mean who Nigerians call citizen Muda! There’s no doubt about the fact that the ordinary Nigerian is not given the tiniest amount of dignity by our so…

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Are We Not All Beggars ? – Adewale Sobowale

There is no country like Nigeria. The people are unique in their Nigerianess. We tend to flex our muscles over non issues. We argue over inanities. That is why we are Nigerians! What is the business of lawmakers with begging and beggars? I understand some of our houses of assembly are busy legislating beggars off…

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May fool? – Adewale Sobowale

The news was agog yesterday about a court in the UK’s sentencing a Nigerian senator who, with his wife, was found guilty of organ harvesting. Knowing how the British love their holidays, and yesterday being Labour Day, were the courts in session yesterday? I googled it, and the answer is, “There are no court sittings.”…

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