I love Yoruba! I love the language because it is extra rich. When one studies Yoruba well, they will definitely not be lacking in the sarcasm that is embedded in Yoruba language. I remember there used to be a television programme in the seventies and early eighties named, ‘Ta n mo’. Ta n mo was…
Photo credit: Premium Times People had been saying it that if someone wanted to hear their oriki, they should attempt swimming in the murky and slime infested waters of Nigerian politics. So, it’s been detected that the PDP contestant in the last presidential elections is not a Nigerian. I should have known too! For anyone…
Photo credit: Channels TV Still on the so called address by the Nigerian president… Mmm… By the way, he must be feeling he’s performed some wonder by pitying his fellow citizens. Abi, no be pity im pity us? There’s no doubting the fact that he would have had a very sound sleep. That, of course,…
Photo credit: Medium So, Twitter has decided to base it’s African incursion in Ghana. It has several reasons for so doing In the first instance, it claims Ghana is a supporter of free speech. That’s a slight on the bad image of Nigeria, the chained giant of Africa. Freedom of speech is very much present…
Photo credit: NAN With the imprisonment of Bobrisky, I would have thought most of us should be free. But wait a minute, how many of us can boldly say we haven’t sprayed the Naira? I’m reliably informed that apart from stomping on the troubled currency, there are other ways people could be guilty of “mutilation”….
Whenever someone dies, someone TV gogives birth, someone is getting married and even if someone is warming their newly built house, my people, the Yoruba like marking such milestones with uniforms. This one is to show their solidarity with the celebrators. Meanwhile, those people celebrating would have factored their expenses on their incomes from the…
Photo credit: Newspeak So many comments have been made about the randy lecturer. Some have so fittingly described him as Professor 5-5. While not totally disagreeing with that description, I want to give him another one. You know that when a new baby is born in these parts, the isomoloruko, naming is usually held on…
