Photo credit: Nairaland The problems of Nigeria is championed by one weakness. That weakness is not being able to talk or ask questions at the right time. The ever wise Yoruba say that ‘Ai le soro ni bere ori buruku’. That is failure to talk, ask questions or even make one’s feelings known is beckoning…
Photo credit: Facebook Seasons, just like barracksare relatively permanent!People only pass through them;Like we saywhere I come from:A clerk can’t everoutlive the office;No matter how long they livewill they be Methuselah?They can’t outlive life!We weren’t awarewhen we breathed our first;Nor can we be awarewhen we’ll breathe our very last!Could we live every secondas if it…
So, I’d been feeling the painit got to a pointthat I had to look up for possibilitiesof seeing dentists! As usual,I procrastinated!Why would I remove a tooth,after all, I’m just a minor! Thoughts of how manybonesmeatsbottle topsmedicationseven papersthat molar had assistedme withI just couldn’t let go! It got to a pointI wasn’t able to munch…
Photo credit: LinkedIn So, how many of us care to listen to the other side of the story? Many people do surprise me when they base their prejudiced and jaundiced ‘judgements” against the other party basing their sickened decisions on the “complainant’s” version of what actually transpired. Even if they were friends with the party…
Photo credit: BBC I understand the African Union is embarrassed by American President Trump’s declaration that some countries are shitholes. Yes, they ought to be. You know people don’t like outsiders to correct or criticize them. If not so, I wouldn’t think President Trump was wrong. In fact, he even tried for the fact that…
Photo credit: the Guardian There is a saying among the Yoruba that we are all thieves, it’s only those caught that are officially called so. I don’t know much about corruption in the First Republic. However, during the Gowonic era, I heard of the “If you Tarka me…” and the Iyabo Olorunkoya cases. In the…
Sometime ago, I used to be a housemaster. By the way, that was the job I enjoyed most. I simply love the youth! While there, more often than not, I had to counsel some boy who had been given a nickname that the more he showed a dislike for the nickname,, the more it would…
