Ninety-four-year-old olusegun Obasanjo wrote a soul-shaking letter to Nigerians. Does that mean he is about to le@ve this world? Here are the words he wrote . He has already said that he is bidding farewell to l!fe… My fellow Countrymen, People tell you that life is very long. “Live easily,” they say. “There’s still plenty…
I’m never shy to declare the rather obvious fact that I attended a public primary school. In fact, I still remember some of the songs we used to sing in school then. I also remember some of the tales. And the games! Yeah, the games!! One of them was Ekun meran! It was all about…
There’s this Yoruba saying that It won’t be so bad for someone to be pleading with their dead ward to come to save them on earth. But as things are, our wards aren’t dead. In fact, they’ve stopped being “lazy” and hearkened to our helplessness in doing what’s right. They’ve obviously realized that we are…
I understand the federal government is determined to increase the prices of alcoholic drinks and tobacco products. I know that must be a plan of the wicked to deprive those who would always resort to the last base or last claro in the case of cigarettes and the never ending last bottle in the case…
I hear the Nigerian state of Niger has renamed its airport after Mr Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president. After hearing the news, the songs that came to my mind were those of Nat King Cole and French Montana, titled “Unforgettable”. Of course, for those who are unaware, we have Tinubu Square in Lagos. It is named…
There’re people and there’re people! We’re ordinary people. But some have an uncommon ability. That ability is not to die. Is it, therefore, not proper to refer to such people as undiables? If a person is gloating over another’s demise? Of course, that person doesn’t have the ability to die. Therefore, he could mock anyone…
I was really pissed off yesterday. My problem is that I happen to have lived, not so long ago, in a somewhat saner Nigeria. Another problem is the fact that it seems so long ago! Like I was saying, in my sane Nigeria, we attended church and tithes were collected. But then, it was nothing…
