There’re gentlemen and there’re gentlemen! There’s one who labels himself a gentleman but his behavior doesn’t portray him as such. He was governor in a southwestern state of Nigeria. He owed civil servants salaries. He created enmity in the educational sector. His so-called opon imo (computer), if faithfully prosecuted could have been useful in these…
I love beautiful people. You may be shocked by which aspect of beauty I’m referring to. Bet most of our minds are fixated on facial beauty. However, I want us to recall a remark which most of us, at one point or the other, must have heard. ‘Beautiful!’ This is a remark made, not to…
People have been telling me I’m nuts. But I hardly believed them. However, it took my being locked out to realize I’m sillilly sick. I was attending to some duty where I didn’t need to take my pen and notebook along. When I finished there, I just had to go home for one reason or…
These, definitely, are not the best of times in Nigeria. We are surely going back to the Hobbesian state. Murders are more than rampant now. Kidnappers have been let loose watching to steal fellow humans. Primitive rituals are the order of the day now. The Yahoo boys are yet to repent. The boko haram crisis…
I wonder if Nigeria’s so-called leaders have any sense of shame. Reading the newspapers, one item I can’t ever forget is where the Nigerian leader is said to have visited the APC leader. He visited him, not in his country home in Nigeria, but somewhere in the United Kingdom. One interesting fact is that both…
I understand the erudite Professor Akintoye wrote a letter to Mr Buhari informing him of Yoruba’s intention to have a nation separate from Nigeria. In other words, according to the letter, their Yoruba wants to be independent. I used “their” because I’m not aware of any election among the Yoruba to that effect. We all…
While the poor are still waiting till kingdom come, there’s no doubting the fact that Nigerian politicians are enjoying the lives of their “heads.” While the government is finding it difficult to pay the masses some stipend, the senators are smiling “prayerfully” to their banks. I guess they’ll give some money to their impoverished constituents….
