Ori yeye ni m’ogun! Marketplaces exist, e’en inside cooler! You may not know, since a gentleman you are! Tai se lo po! There, futures are sold Yes! If you did nothing And you get sent there Is your future not sold? Ori yeye ni m’ogun! You’re protected for free, though You get free food, accommodation too!…
Aren’t we all in birthday suits? Adam and Eve were lucky they were covered with leaves! Our own privacy is nakedness! We go about running from pillar to post, yet hardly finding true meaning of our beings! Would it be right to say, All men are equal? An emphatic no! Equality of man is but an…
Ajegunle – with unlivable, ramshackle palaces, kids playing in cesspits, since the place lacks, even, simplest of amenities – remains a banter, where our new jungle cities are! Even the dead, dead as dodo, get deprived of eternal rest or unrest, graveyards must be reclaimed, and give way to skyscrapers! Sleeping waters are woken, reclamation…
The other day, I was bragging about my proficiency in the Yoruba language when I was in the junior forms in secondary school. I hardly knew my nemesis was nearer than I thought. So on Sunday, we were asked to read some lines of the Lord’s Prayer in church. When the chairman of the church’s board told…
Sango can be heard thundering in the skies; Oya, winding and storming here on earth! Ogun, powering furnace in forge! Yet, we turn deaf ear! What’s more, we turn blind eye, pretending not to see! If we did see or never lost our auditory system, did we also lose our sense of speech? We continue…
By Tola Adeniyi Most times, in our self-absorption, we assume that people are talking about us. When some of us enter a social gathering, we are so self-conscious in our exaggerated self-importance that we think that all eyes at the party are centred on us especially so, if we believed the designer-dress we adorned was…
By Tunde Olusunle I’ve just watched a four-minute video clip of Alex Otti, the Abia State Governor, commissioning a humongous haul of 14 road projects in one day in Aba, the major commercial hub in the state. My interest was not in the ceremonial cutting of tapes and ribbons at every turn during the exercise….
