Opinion

There’s no doubting the fact that Nigerians and the rest of the world are waiting with bated breath for this jagbajantis of a regime led by Mr Buhari to end. I can’t but remember the song we sang, with gusto, in my elementary school days when it was time to go home: A ki yin…

How can a presidential aspirant go to a state, and, instead of presenting his manifesto, he started citing what I will refer to as irrelevancies? His reference to the Pope might have been seen as blasphemy in Northern Nigeria. To make matters worse, he even referred to a sitting governor as “eleyi” – “this one”….

A Suegbe, in this context, is defined as original as they could come while a Rare is a starstruck wannabe! The former doesn’t need validation from anyone because they’re natural. Therefore, they could survive anywhere without a change in their personality. I’m proud to be a Suegbe! Meanwhile, a Rare could be described as the…

I’m sitting here and remembering how Mr Dalung, Nigerian sports minister and Mrs Yetunde Onanuga travelled to watch Anthony Joshua’s demolition of Takam in the tenth round. They did not fail to relay a message of how the government and people of Nigeria were proud of AJ. When the heavyweight boxer visited Nigeria, the then…

Why are we so careless with our own lives in Southwest Nigeria? Do we imagine that some magical solution will arrive from Abuja, Akure, Osogbo, Ado-Ekiti, or Abeokuta to protect us from the terrorists attacking our communities? Do we believe that the bandits who recently ravaged villages have simply disappeared? Do we think they will…

Back to the issue of government involving itself in religious affairs. Kilo dun bi arun iba! For a government to rule well, it must be an octopus with its tentacles in everything. If it could be planned well, the governors and president should be made to head all the religious bodies. We may then have,…