Limota called me. I picked up the phone. Limota: Prof, is this a good time to talk. Me: You know it isn’t. It’s 2am here. I’m supposed to be sleeping now, not talking. Limota: But I have an urgent question and you don’t sound like I woke you up. Me: Quickly. How can I help…
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 in a withdrawal process. And they’ve all become SU without…
Virtually all my posts on religion have been on the Christian faith. That’s because, even though some may not think so, I’m a Christian. Why some may not think so is primarily due to the fact that as a liberal, I tend to think that God has enough power to defend Himself. I’d not dwell…
COVID-19 is turning out as an exposure of the rooster’s anus. But I’m particularly concerned about the dignity of Americans who call Common Joe. I mean, who do Nigerians call citizen Muda? There’s no doubt that our so-called leaders do not give the ordinary Nigerian the tiniest amount of dignity. Ok! Every four years, they…
There is no country like Nigeria. The people are unique in their Nigerians. 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 to remove beggars…
I vividly remember Chief Ebenezer Obey’s song of the seventies, ‘Ohun ti o da o da’. In English, it means, ‘There is no other name to call a bad thing but bad’. It is no longer news that a section of the official residence of the Oba of Lagos, Iga Idunganran, was engulfed in a…
With a great sense of pity, I watched Dr Badamasi Lawal Charachi, the Katsina state commissioner for education, explaining away the mass purchase of dogs! By the way, Katsina is in Nigeria, the state from which Mr Buhari hails. All those people from a particular state in the southwest, you may carefully go and have…
