Let’s be thanking God for little mercies. Let’s thank Him for all things. I’m rereading Olusegun Adeniyi’s ‘The Last 100 Days of Abacha’. All the killings and attempted killings. The so-called phantom coup. The adoption of the ‘five fingers of the same hand’, as the late Bola Ige described the political parties of that troubled…
If I had the opportunity, I would have asked the Nigerian President what happened during the lockdown to warrant easing it from next Monday. I would have even asked him if he had succeeded in getting an okay from COVID-19 that it must only strike at night. That would have informed him of a curfew…
There’s no doubt that Nollywood – Nigeria’s version of Hollywood – is going places. With the number of Nigerians progressively committing the offence of japaing, the sky is the beginning for our thespians. The movies are doing a lot in reminding one of home. But there are quite a few things to be done. For…
Hey, would you want black-eyed Susan?I’ll prefer Canna,my mom wants Hibiscusand Papa loves Lavender! We can have all,since it’s summer!We gonna have long long dayswhich will be scorchingly sunny! Off with heavy layersof wears in wintry days!Some wore five jackets,others three trousersplus thermal coats! They still frozesince cold couldn’t be kept at bay!Times like thoseone…
In the night,we do eat light!But so many neverdid lunch ever! At dawn, workersand, even loiterersdo get up from cotsleaving wives untouched! Muraina wakes Muezzin,Gabriel’s a Christian,Owonikoko a traditionalist,Jafojo – a free spirit! All are unitedin this businessof making a concretejungle of our cities! it appearstheir own Goddoes snore in sleepand needs to be woken!…
Several sites exist in Cambodia, where more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge during its rule of the country between 1975 and 1979. They are appropriately named the Cambodian Killing Fields. An estimated 500,000 thousand and one million Rwandans were eliminated within 100 days. This took place between 7…
I had decided not to post anything about COVID-19 again, especially given Nigeria’s untidy management of the scourge. However, when a handshake moves to the elbow, it becomes a wrestle. The death of an old-school buddy has made me shatter my shell. He attended the reputable Baptist Academy, Obanikoro, in Lagos, where he was a…
