Photo credit: Facebook The Yoruba have a saying: The elder who refuses to shout at the start of a misdemeanour, will only have themselves to blame when the anticipated result becomes glaring. In his so-called “Budget of Restoration: Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity,” the Nigerian President, Mr Bola Tinubu allocated 1.7 per cent or N826.5 billion…
A video clip has gone viral on social media about a lady who was alleged to have stolen a phone. Amongst other indignities, the lady was stripped naked and had pepper inserted into her private organs. I couldn’t believe the fact that that’s happening in modern-day Nigeria. But then, what’s modern about Nigeria? Is Nigeria…
Photo credit: Punch Newspaper There was a case of two people having a face-off. One of them described the other as an okada! Well, I leave the meaning of that to your vivid imagination. Talking on the okada and tricycle ban in some parts of Lagos state and the government saying it never gave anyone…
I don’t know where the above quote is in Prof Chinua Achebe’s trilogy, ‘Things Fall Apart’, ‘No Longer at Ease” and ‘Arrow of God’. However, it tends to speak a lot about my convictions that writers tend to see what others might not see and the present cravings of various groups in Nigeria to go…
Just felt I should thank all the teachers who taught me at every level. By the way, I’m still in the process of being taught since I know anyone who has stopped learning is as good as a dodo – dead! I know this is not Teachers’ Day, but I think every day should be…
I hereby tender my unreserved apology to Field Marshall Mohammed Buhari. I had seen no good in him due to his antecedents as military Head of State. I, therefore, refused to vote for him as a civilian president! I just felt his torpedoing an elected president disqualified him for the exalted post of a democratically…
Photo credit: Punch Newspaper In the eighties, specifically 1983, when public buildings were getting burnt by insiders turned arsonists, Ray Ekpu, the celebrated journalist predicted that the NET building would be one of the next to be burnt. Presto! The building was burnt. That’s no news. The news is the fact that Ekpu was arrested….
