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…
Photo credit: Premium Times I understand a committee set up by the APC is now looking into restructuring in order to support it. Oh well, I tend to think it’s a ruse. In the first instance, the President in many of his remarks has shown that restructuring would be the last thing he’s going to…
Photo credit: instagram I used to believe that Nigeria was better as one country. Not even the issue of insecurity could persuade me. Neither could the lopsided nature of appointments by the Buhari regime nor the mediocrity inherently displayed by key practitioners in the political class convince me that Nigeria should split. But I must…
