Photo credit: The New York Times I really do empathize with people of my own pigmentation. I mean the Black man. That’s because they’ve had to bear a lot of unjustified indignities throughout history. And they aren’t about to stop. But then; looking in the mirror, it’s not as if only blacks have had to…
Former Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State and a correspondent attached to governor’s office… Photo credit: Daniel William I don’t really know what’s happening to our state houses. May be, the poser ought to have been what’s happening in our state houses. I mean, for most journalists, once they serve in the various state…
Photo credit: the Punch Yeah, we’re enjoying the sallah. Some people from the west were allegedly killed when they went to buy rams in the north. Newspapers featured how frantically we became while looking for sallah rams. We practically combed the whole of the north to get good bargains. In the same vein, we keep…
Photo credit: metro These people are damn too friendly, especially to kids, the elderly, and those who are frail for one reason or the other. In the first instance, it’s a custom for drivers to make way for pedestrians. But some of our African brothers hardly respect this tradition. When you go into buses, some…
What was that? Ogantable….something that one cannot finish counting. Uncountable, but to our not so tutored ears, it sounded like ‘ogantable’. Learning the English Language was not so easy for me. I can remember making some innocent errors in the beginning. However, thank God for little mercies. Nobody called the mother tongue, in this case,…
Photo credit: RNN.NG Nigeria used to have quite a few number of colourful politicians. Some of them were TOS Benson, Adeniran Ogunsanya, Adegoke Adelabu, Maitama Sule, Aminu Kano, Chuba Okadigbo, JM Johnson, Obafemi Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola, Ahmadu Bello,KO Mbadiwe, Bola Ige, etc. Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe was born in Arondizuogu in 1910. He was educated at…
Photo credit: Nigeria Constitution We should greet the presidency for taking care of the opposing groups on Buhari. A group is insistent that the president, Mr Buhari should either come back home and resume duties or he should stay in the UK or wherever. But he must resign. The other group is saying that since…
