The movie begins when Mr Adeboye’s father buys an umbrella. It is a very rare thing, not unlike when the colonizers came to Africa and dazzled the folks with mirrors and gin. Then Enoch tells his father that he wants to attend high school. The father doesn’t have the money. Enoch refuses to eat for…
I remember a friend posted that when some people are paid their monthly salary, they’ll go prostrating for their bosses as if they’ve done them a favor, So it is for our people in Lagos and Abia states as they are reacting to the Red Rail and Electricity projects recently launched in their respective states….
There was once a man who felt so forsaken that he felt he had to commit suicide. Apparently, he wasn’t making it in life’s struggles. Our friend was an African. In those days, Africans were very courageous. He was so dejected that he felt suicide was the solution. Our friend bought a long rope. He…
The loud silence that’s coming from the sons of men in Nigeria is alarming! Man, we don’t even know what they are planning. But, at least we’re happy to have some peace and fewer casualties.You know if the election they held on Saturday had been without hitches, some of us might have lost our lives…
In Abeokuta, there’s a place that’s very dear to my heart. We call the place ‘abe igi’, under the shade of tree(s). The place is in Oke Ilewo, close to Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation, (OPIC). There, we discuss,debate,argue and drink socially. There is a newspaper distributor close by. Actually, most of us were…
Toronto is a great city! It’s great not because it’s the capital of Ontario province. Ontario, of course, is a province in Canada! Neither is it great because of its dynamic metropolis with a core of soaring skyscrapers which are not even as tall as the impressive CN towers. This post is singing the praises…
Apart from the first republic where each region was engaged in a healthy competition with the others, I fail to see any inkling of federalism not to talk of confederalism practised in Nigeria. Right from the first coup d’etat of January 15, 1966 which subsequently produced General Agui Ironsi aka Ironsides as the first military…
