Photo credit: BBC A very long time ago, when eyes were still on the knees, there was a great famine which affected all animals. The famine was such that animals couldn’t get food to eat. They then called a meeting to discuss the famine. At the end of the day, they decided to kill their…
I beg to be different! Yeah!! As far as being straightjacketed is concerned, I’m just too old to change! I’ll not be caught, except when necessary, doing aso ebi, uniform, for social functions. I certainly won’t be caught going to church only on Christmas day. I have stopped going to church only on New Year’s…
Photo credit: Daily Post The so-called celebration of love is manifesting itself in various ways in Nigeria. I’ll keep on saying it that the European experience just can’t be summarily imposed on Africans. Not because Africans are less human, but because cultures tend to differ from place to place. When we call our traditional rulers…
Some people might not know I’ve given up on Buhari. Why shouldn’t I? Ore kinni’pa se fun’di? A kuku’joye san j’enu mi o ka’lu lo! I believe he’s either being wicked or he’s not aware of the situation of things in the country he’s failed to rule well. I don’t want to say he’s already…
Photo credit: Hodges Figgis After fifty, the body stops sending polite emails and begins issuing official memos. You wake up one morning and discover that your knees now have opinions. Your back has started keeping records. Your blood pressure has developed ambitions. Somewhere inside you, cholesterol is quietly building a retirement home along your arteries…
Fast for forty days,Masses fast everyday.Awe ti b’awe nle,Biribiri gan la ngba! We already spent,Without being sentAeons in fast,Cos we lack. So when you sayWe must pay,Through fasting,We are smiling. Already we’re hungeredCos we ponderedOver nothing to eat,We have no wheat. We are prayingWhile picking,The left oversNot to be picked by others! Dikko was prophetic!…
Photo credit: Daily Post It’s no longer news that the first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, has left this world. He was a man of achievements! So many housing estates, so many schools, so many hospitals, a radio station, a tv station, a university, etc were founded by him. To cap…
