Nigeria! – Adewale Sobowale

The Nigerian situation is such that the wise must be wary of mischievous people who run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Lawyers say the one who comes to equity must come with clean hands. Some say we should hold on to the message and forget the messenger. However, is the messenger as…

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What’s Strange? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Vanguard There’s this news of Mr Buhari going to inspect his herd of cattle while refusing to visit the school or the parents of the boys who had been kidnapped in HIS state. I wonder what the problem is with journalists. After all, the president sent a high-ranking official to that state. Forget…

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Of Seasonal Gifts! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Business Day This is the season when the challenged, in various ways, are remembered. The old, the invalid, and the motherless, including the fatherless, could be lucky to be remembered. However, I’m looking at it from another angle. Let’s assume that each gets a ram, a bag of rice and four litres of…

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The Ass! – Adewale Sobowale

Thanks, my lady lawyer. How soon shall we learn that we need to not only be free but be seen as free? And this freedom is absolute. Isn’t it? What’s so bad about someone displaying their freedom? And she happens to have studied the law? Freedom to breathe, freedom to eat, freedom to ease ourselves!…

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South Korean president impeached!

Photo credit: The Japan Times  South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, almost two weeks after his short-lived declaration of martial law plunged the country into its worst political crisis for decades. The Guardian reports that the 204 lawmakers voted for an opposition motion to impeach Yoon. About 200,000 protesters outside also demanded…

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