Shagari’s Death! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Punch Newspaper May the soul of Alhaji Sheu Shagari rest in perfect peace! I believe he presided over Nigeria in the country’s heyday. Contesting elections against the intellectually sound Nnamdi Azikiwe, the ideologically sound Aminu Kano and the result-oriented Obafemi Awolowo wasn’t a mean feat. Even if the election was in a logjam,…

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ÌWÚRE

Nkàn mẹ́ta l’ọdẹ kìí pa:Ọdẹ kìí pa asán,Ọdẹ kìí p’òfo,Ọdẹ kìí p’àdánù,Ẹ kò ní p’asán,Ẹ kò mà ní p’òfo,Bẹ́ẹ̀ni , ẹ kò sì ní p’àdánù o.Gbogbo ara ni ṣẹṣẹfun fií nṣ’ajé l’ójojúmọ́ .Ajé á máa jẹ́ ti yín l’ójojúmọ́ .Ìná kòní tán ọwọ́ yín .Ojú kìí pọ́n iṣin àìlà .Ojú kò ní pọ́n yín o…

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Pajawiri! Emergency!! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Source Magazine The South Easterners used a device to deter the more superior, in terms of fire power and strategy, federal forces during the regrettable and unnecessary civil war. That is ogbunigwe. Sadly, instead of the federal government to order research into it and thereby make it an instrument of warfare, the…

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