Looking at the global village, I can’t but refer to a Yoruba saying that, if one doesn’t have the means, they dare not inquire about their father’s death. Where’re those that will normally, after a comparatively small disaster in any corner of the world, be all over the social media announcing their safety in that…
Last Monday was International Women’s Day. Today happens to be Mother’s Day. Maybe it’s because of the efforts of women we have so many mother’s days. I just thought I should make some notes on the obvious need for women in our private, social and political lives. When we look at the Christian world view…
Photo credit: BBC I just thought I should mention the disadvantages of not having MC Oluomo in our lives. I wonder what the hell is happening. I read some time last week that the national body of NURTW had sanctioned MC Oluomo, the chairman of the Lagos state branch of the body. Mmm… By the…
Ninety-four-year-old olusegun Obasanjo wrote a soul-shaking letter to Nigerians. Does that mean he is about to le@ve this world? Here are the words he wrote . He has already said that he is bidding farewell to l!fe… My fellow Countrymen, People tell you that life is very long. “Live easily,” they say. “There’s still plenty…
I’m never shy to declare the rather obvious fact that I attended a public primary school. In fact, I still remember some of the songs we used to sing in school then. I also remember some of the tales. And the games! Yeah, the games!! One of them was Ekun meran! It was all about…
There’s this Yoruba saying that It won’t be so bad for someone to be pleading with their dead ward to come to save them on earth. But as things are, our wards aren’t dead. In fact, they’ve stopped being “lazy” and hearkened to our helplessness in doing what’s right. They’ve obviously realized that we are…
I understand the federal government is determined to increase the prices of alcoholic drinks and tobacco products. I know that must be a plan of the wicked to deprive those who would always resort to the last base or last claro in the case of cigarettes and the never ending last bottle in the case…
