‘The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny.’ – Prof ‘Wole Soyinka The quote by the Prof can not be overemphasized in a country like Nigeria. The tragedy is that they are refusing to be silent these days. Indeed, some of them are muttering arrant nonsense just for the sake…
I just can’t help thinking about the thoughtfulness of the powers that be in my country of birth. Why? At every level, they’re building bridges where there used to be none. I’d been occupied with other things before a friend posted a link on my WhatsApp page. The link is of the Eleyi of Ogun…
Anytime I look at the situation in Nigeria in relation to Nigerians ourselves, I can’t help but laugh.See most of us now, we’re regretting installing this government. But if we had just accepted our faults and hidden our tails between our legs like poor rain drenched dogs, nobody would have raised eyebrows. But trust the…
I understands 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 beaten and subjected…
Photo credit: Yale Medicine 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…
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 impurities from liquids;I’ll…
Experts in education have made us know that people first think in their mother tongues. Is that not a way of saying, you may succeed in taking a man out of the bush but you just can’t succeed in taking the bush out of the man? Many of our kids, in Nigeria, go to schools…
