I love the Yoruba language. Of course, the Yoruba are a people mostly found in the Southwest of Nigeria. One of their songs is,‘Yokolu yokolu,Ko ha tan bi,Iyawo gbo’ko sanle,Oko yo’ke’. The song is normally sung to make jest of people who could have done better and prevent an impending doom. One saying of the…
Photo credit: Getty image Someone posted an indictment on the begging culture which has now enveloped us. When I say, us, I really do mean it! In the past, the standard way of writing a letter for employment was to begin with, ‘I beg to apply…’ These days we’re not begging for employment but for…
Photo credit: Facebook Yes! If we had known Aisha was like this, we would have made her the police inspector general. A lazy youth commented about her new look even while the average Nigerian man looks and eats less that–average. So, she got the boy arrested and with others, she was giving the boy summary…
It’s getting apparent more and more, everyday, that Nigeria doesn’t have a head. It’s not clear if it does even have a tail. The reason is not far fetched. The goings on in that country could be termed to be the Hobbesian state of nature. How can there be a head and preventable crimes will…
Nigeria claims to be a democratic country. Note my word, ‘claims’. Isn’t it in Nigeria that we have prisoners, even in spite of court orders setting them free? We have people like Sambo Dasuki, Ibrahim Zakzaky, Omoyele Sowore and others currently languishing in various detention rooms across the nation. The silly department in charge of…
Photo credit: facebook I belong to a group on Facebook which had a party last year. The success of the party in various ways has made the group to fix another party for December one. Well, people should celebrate! But one thing that beats me silly is the fact that some of their acquaintances were…
One thing that keeps astounding me is the regularity at which seasons move in circles. In spite of the so called global warming, the seasons do not fail us. In the tropics, we have the harmattan, dry and rainy seasons. In the western world there are the winter, summer, spring and autumn seasons. In the…
