Photo credit: The Leadership When he changed his name from what he perceived to be a slave name, Ransome, to Anikulapo, we thought he did not know what he was talking about, but then events proved him right. The truth is that he has simply refused to die! When we consider the immense popularity AfroBeats…
I understand Mr Buhari should resume work on the sixth of February. That’s great, isn’t it? He is a famous man! If he wasn’t all the concern about his health wouldn’t have arisen. I was in a taxi yesterday. Lo and behold, a funeral motorcade approached us from the opposite direction. The person sitting next…
Photo credit: Premium Times It’s good to be good! Or should I say it’s good to have made a great impact? I can remember when Awo, as Chief Obafemi Awolowo was fondly called by friends and foes alike, was involved in charges of treason and subsequently imprisoned. I was then a skinny underpant wearing tot….
Gradually and rapidly, what should not qualify as even the exception is becoming the case in Nigeria. I’m referring to the insecurity that’s now an egbejoda, uniform, in Nigeria. The hungry vultures are rapidly becoming unfamished. If it’s not Boko Haram, it’s the modern herdsmen. Modern because in the not so far away days of…
When I was in school, if someone had outlived their usefulness, we normally sang a song for them: Òjò ń rọ̀Ṣe’ré ńnú’léMá wọ’nú òjòKí aṣọ rẹ̀Má bà tutùKí òtútùMá bà mú ẹ! The song warns about an impending shower of shame that’s going to flood a person. The Yoruba song is brutally franker than similar…
That Ogun State will become forty years tomorrow is now stale news. However, what I find unbecoming is the manner the State Government declared a public holiday. They said it was declared yesterday night. The government might have forgotten that most people do not enjoy constant power supply in Nigeria. Personally, I do not even…
Thoughts of Makoko can’t but fill me with nostalgia. We used to live at Tapa/Abeokuta street in Ebute Meta East. Nearby was Oko Baba, a sawmill settlement that adjoined Makoko. I was then living with my aunt who was a Celestial Church of Christ Makoko member. One thing I noticed even then was the almost annual fire break…
