The Western world has a lot of packagings. With the right packaging and a good marketing strategy one can sell ice to a man in Iceland. He would have forgotten that he doesn’t need it. Did you know that succotash is our own adalu. Adalu is a meal of corn (maize) and beans. Of course,…
Nigeria used to have quite a few number of colourful politicians. Some of them were TOS Benson, Adeniran Ogunsanya, Adegoke Adelabu, Maitama Sule, Aminu Kano, Chuba Okadigbo, JM Johnson, Obafemi Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola, Ahmadu Bello,KO Mbadiwe, Bola Ige, etc. Kingsleyz Ozumba Mbadiwe was born in Arondizuogu in 1910. He was educated at Hope Waddel Training…
What was that? Ogantable….something that one can not finish counting. Uncountable, but to our not so tutored ears, it sounded like, ‘ogantable’. Learning the English Language was not so easy for me. I can remember making some innocent errors in the beginning. However, thank God for little mercies. Nobody called the mother tongue, in this…
Yeah, we’re enjoying the sallah. Some people from the west were allegedly killed when they went to buy rams in the north. Newspapers featured how frantically we became while looking for sallah rams. We practically combed the whole of the north to get good bargains. In the same vein, we keep saying the northerners are…
I don’t really know what’s happening to our state houses. May be, the poser ought to have been what’s happening in our state houses. I mean, for most journalists, once they serve in the various state houses, their lives just refuse to remain the same. The state house appears to be the litmus test for…
I really do empathize with people of my own pigmentation. I mean the Black man. That’s because they’ve had to bear a lot of unjustified indignities throughout history. And they aren’t about to stop. But then; looking in the mirror, it’s not as if only blacks have had to bear the brunt of inhumane violations….
A couple of days ago, some activists led by Charly Boy went on a peaceful protest in Abuja. We have since learnt that men of the Nigeria Police Force dispersed the group with tear gas. That was very generous of the peace keepers! Public commentators have since been making various comments about the peaceful protest….
