Our people in Nigeria seem to have resigned to fate. I say this with a lot of distaste. Distaste because I just feel that under no circumstances, must a dislike for evil deeds be stopped. But our people seem to have lost their voices. I’m referring specifically to the recent kidnap of over 200 pupils…
I’ve long become convinced that human beings – no matter their pigmentation, economic situation, ability or otherwise, height or weight, are either good or bad! For that reason, I’ve been castigated by some who are blind to what I’m seeing! Human beings are rainbows, each of us a fragment of colour. Humanity shines when its…
I’m not a mathematician, but I know that the six Yoruba state governors, in the actual sense, are really less than half of a whole number. We all know the federal government is of little use to the common man. I stand to be corrected, we’ve never had it so bad at the center. Even…
So, killings are now the order of the day in Nigeria. I really wonder how we got to this state of things in Nigerian society. In the Nigeria of my childhood, criminality was scorned. There’s no society that’s crime-free, but the frequency of crimes in Nigeria is alarming. Those involving human lives are simply pathetic….
I’d always considered myself a strong man. Now, I had usually been surrounded by women. Yeah! On my maternal side, apart from mom, I had this troika of grandmas. One was Mama Ghana. She was my biological grandmother. A no nonsense woman, she didn’t have the time for my shenanigans. She called a spade its…
Sons of men are celebrating today. They say today’s International Women’s Day! Hmm… There’s even a saying among them that if you educate a woman, you’re educating a generation. So, if you educate a man, you must be educating generations. But then, there’re women that calling them women of substance is an unfavourable understatement. This…
Lucky ones went with a backpack; Others with only the clothes on their backs, since their lives depended on it! When they arrived an unknown land, some had to sleep rough, with no loonie, and neither food nor water! No border remembers their names No anthems rise when they stand, The wind never asks for…
