A nation in denial! – Adewale Sobowale

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”….

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& Co – Adewale Sobowale

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…

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Of Oranges! – Adewale Sobowale

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…

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Just a Thought! – Adewale Sobowale

I believe we should congratulate each other for our respective reactions to this novel virus. But the congratulations will, of course, be limited to those who have sincerely given and citizens who have shown a lot of resilience to disappointments. I particularly praise the citizens because they deserve much better treatments from those governing them….

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I Don’t Get it! – Adewale Sobowale

It’s Tuesday. Yet, this week is already promising to be full of interesting things. The most popular word in Nigeria now is “betray”. It’s become so popular that, quite often, many mix up the act and the subject. More seriously, can the politicians say the reason they are declaring for whatever political post is because…

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Of Culture Shocks! – Adewale Sobowale

Can Nigerians ever imagine a place where almost everything works? I mean a situation in which there are no shouts of, ‘Up NEPA”, because you are over supplied with electric power. A place where the taps run 24/7. Some hospitals are even ready to give patients treatments when they don’t have money. And when we…

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