Less Than Okayest! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Punch I understand soldiers are being unpatriotically used to guard herders and their animals to farms in Ogun state. Of course, when they get to the farms, the labors of farmers go to waste because the animals have a field day munching what their owners didn’t work for. In several cases, farmers are…

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Right To Die! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: BBC The protests by anti – vaxxers against the taking of COVID-19 vaccines in the Western world is, no doubt, leading to a situation where people will be yearning for the right to die or right to commit suicide. They may have a point by saying the vaccines are not necessarily going to…

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Greying me! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: independent Hmm… Some years ago;I wrote on my balding pate;Another year, on the greying hair I did write! I never knew growing to be a senior was yet to be done with me;I’ve started growing a grey tuft on my moustache! I do adore my moustache because it’s especially good for ferreting out…

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Afraid Of History? – Adewale Sobowale

History is in the syllabus of Nigerian schools. I can tell you that it’s there just for the sake of history! Hardly is it studied by pupils!Hardly are there teachers for it!!Hardly is it recommended as a course to study in tertiary institutions!!! Unfortunately for us, we might never succeed in charting our way forward…

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Baby Kingsway! – Adewale Sobowale

When I was younger, I was used to a person who was slow in running errands being described as, ‘baby kingsway’. At least, up to the early eighties there used to be some merchantile stores in the major city centres of Nigeria. Some of them were Kingsway, Leventis, Chellarams, Chanrai, etc. Most of them used…

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Chickmen – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: PM News Kindly pardon my use of words. I’m not unnecessarily using poetic license. However, when certain things keep making senseless recurs, I’m always at a loss on how to describe them. Some people have said that some anjonu bring those words, anjonu meaning spirits. Of course, not those that a former presidential…

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