I generally feel concerned for the aged when it’s their birthday. You see, their children and sometimes even grandchildren will not fail to prepare themselves for the occasion. The ice cold drinks and deliciously prepared food items will be competing with each other. A band or dj will be at hand to be churning out…
All these talks about appointments of media people shows the lack of seriousness inherent in our political space. In the first instance, both of them are eminently qualified to occupy the respective posts. The last time I checked, the political appointees who appointed them had the right to appoint just anyone they deemed fit to…
In my innocence, I used to think grey hair and baldness went with riches and wisdom. Not until I started having both did I realise my belief was nothing but a ruse. The grey hair started with an obscure strand. But it is all over me now, even in the unlikeliest of places. What’s more,…
When a child seems to be selfishly savouring a particular item, the Yoruba are quick to remind him that, ‘On ton tan lodun eegun, omo alagbaa nbo wa fekuru jeko’. The simple meaning of that is that everyday is not Christmas. You know there was once a goggled Abacha in Nigeria. During his reign, Nigerians…
So, the southern governors in Nigeria have decided, in their benevolence, to go into agriculture. At least, that’s what the newly elected chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum, Mr. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state, said. I hope it wasn’t said out of a bit of satiety from the dinner which would have accompanied their meeting….
The news of the brutal murder of eighty six people in Nigeria’s middle belt state of Plateau shocked me. It’s not as if the killing will be the first, but then, it set me thinking about the sort of person a killer would be. Since I’m not a psychologist all I will do here is…
Quite a lot of people have commented on the killing of a CEO by his erstwhile girlfriend or sidechick in popular parlance! However, the way I see the whole issue is that of a decaying society from which the basic values and norms have fled. Before that gruesome incident, had other condemnable crimes not been…
