Photo credit: the Guardian It interests me that the dictionaries and even scientists could be so less than being totally correct. Yeah, they are! Listed amongst the endangered species in the world are the giant panda, tiger, whooping crane, blue whale, Asian elephant, sea otter, snow leopard, gorilla and so on! They have left out…
A video is currently going viral of a car with its glass tinted and one of its occupants is supposed to be Mr Mohammed Buhari, the Nigerian President. The embarrassing thing is that some urchins who are believed to be lazy Nigerian youths are heckling and booing the person assumed to be Buhari in the…
In a comment to my post yesterday, someone alluded in a wishy washy way that they might have heard a rumor about me. Of course, people must be rumored about. Even the dead are rumored about. However, the guy who made the comment has unwittingly opened a can of worms. When I had that health…
Photo credit: Premium Times Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, on Wednesday announced the cancellation of the teaching of Indigenous languages, otherwise known as mother tongue languages, as the medium of instruction in Nigerian primary schools. The minister, a medical doctor, announced the unprogressive move at the 2025 Language in Education International Conference organized by the…
That the Ogun State government has deemed it fit to officially recognize ADIRE, a traditional batik that has been made popular by the Egbas is great. However, I don’t see anything new in that. When Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was President, he hardly wore anything apart from ADIRE. Osoba and Amosun too tried to project the…
That our president, his excellency, Mr Goodluck Jonathan is making his intention known today is not news. It is not news because he has the right so to do. Politically, the conditions are also right. The two hundred girls who were seized by the dreaded boko haram have been married off to members of boko…
People do suffer! OK, I’ve been hearing a phrase, Gb’omu le lantern, the literal meaning is placing some breast on a lantern. Can you imagine how it will feel? Putting a woman’s succulent breasts on a lit lantern. Even a man will certainly not enjoy it. Actually, I don’t know the roots of the phrase….
