Guess it was one of those days mum took me to Lagos Island for some shopping. Somewhere around Tinubu Square we saw a crowd gathered around a banjo-clad singer. Knowing mum didn’t have any time for frivolities, I intentionally slowed down so that I could have a peep at what was going on. When mum couldn’t find…
These are certainly days when those of us who are no Muslims suddenly wish why not. Even at these austere times, if you stay in a place where Muslims are many, like I do, you should, by now, be working out how to pay Sallah visits to your numerous friends. It is because of times…
Mine was a very lively childhood. I would say I had a pretentious innocence. That’s because I actually knew much more than the adults knew that I did. And, I’m suspecting that at least half of the youngsters of those days had a semblance of that too. You know, school was an experience. A very…
A certain governor in the southwest has declared that it takes a lot of courage to be earning less than $24,000 and be presiding over a budget of more than $500,000. He is also ‘visibly’ worried by the poor take home pay of civil servants. In the first instance, I wouldn’t know if the governor…
The federal government has, through the director general of the National Council for Arts and Culture. To usher in the 2017 African Arts and Craft Expo starting in Abuja today, Olusegun Runsewe was said to have gleefully announced that this would affect subsequent cultural events to be held in the country. After banning what it…
He’s positioned as the Director-General for Arts and Culture. Anytime he wants to justify his post and pay, he must go deep in arrant nonsense. He was reported to have dwelt on the Nigerian crossdresser, Bob Risky in a recent interview. As we used to say in those, not too far days, of my youth,…
I’m reading it’s now an offence in Ondo state of Nigeria for civil servants to send their wards to private schools. That means it’s a must for them to send them to public schools. As much as I love the patriotism of the governor who is a one time president of the NBA, the association…
