Mr Buhari’s speech could at the very best be described as being full of hot air! Personally, I see the sixty-paragraph address as a waste of precious time. It doesn’t have anything that’s substantially new. In the fourth paragraph, the president even says, ‘As your democratically elected leaders,…’ Must that fact be emphasized at these…
What are those things we ought to have done that we’re failing to do? What are those things we ought not to have done that have become kárí ilé, asọ oní súgà for us? Do we belong to political parties? How much do we pay as membership fees? These questions are fundamental because if we…
My treasured friends on this blue lane must have been wondering why I got down to the low of one stupid boy who’s claiming some money he never worked for. I did it deliberately for him to state his case so that the discerning will know whether he has a genuine case. According to him…
Photo credit: Arab News Domestic migrants in India, who often travel thousands of kilometres for work, are weighing up whether to leave New Delhi for good as energy resources choked by the Middle East war dwindle. The Daily Mail reports that black market prices of cooking gas cylinders have soared beyond what labourers living hand-to-mouth…
Photo credit: ITVX The game was up for a couple of men, Dilshad Shamo and Ali Khdir, who were facilitating the illegal entry of migrants from outside the EU. WalesOnline reports that both men ran their operation from a car wash on the side of a busy Caerphilly road, and it was difficult to comprehend…
Whenever someone dies, someone gives birth, someone is getting married and even if someone is warming their newly built house, my people, the Yoruba like marking such milestones with uniforms. This one is to show their solidarity with the celebrators. Meanwhile, those people celebrating would have factored their expenses on their incomes from the uniforms….
