In the mental hospital, we were given hard-boiled eggs without salt. I came to see my time in isolation, and the forgoing of salt, as a form of slow torture. For over a month, I did not see anyone except the attendants when food was handed to me. When I bathed in the basin, I…
‘Ori yeye n mogun, tai se lo po nbe’. The aforementioned is a Yoruba saying denoting the injustice of power when used stupidly. I just learnt about one hundred men of the Nigerian police force were sent to make sure Bob Risky didn’t celebrate his birthday. Bob Risky himself ‘spoke with his legs’! Omo olomo,…
I’ve always told whoever cares to listen that the Nigerian situation will get worse before getting better. See the headline of yesterday’s news. The Interim Management Committee of the NDDC (Niger Delta Development Commission) has declared that Nigeria will break if it releases the list of looters in the organization. Dr Cairo Ojougboh, the executive…
Photo credit: Yahoo News Canada’s immigration reset is entering a harder phase. After Ottawa sharply reduced planned arrivals of international students and temporary workers, the head of a prominent immigration-policy council is arguing the country should go further. Parisa Mahboubi, who chairs the CD Howe Institute’s Immigration Targets Council, says the federal goal of bringing non-permanent…
Scientists have drawn a clear line between one everyday skill and clearer thinking. Independent reports that writing by hand – instead of typing on a laptop or tapping on your phone – has serious cognitive benefits. “There’s actually some very i important things going on during the embodied experience of writing by hand,” Ramesh Balasubramaniam, a neuroscientist at…
Life is so interesting. Living life is more interesting. A person finding his own space and living his own life in his own way is the most interesting being, I have found, in life. You see, if you allow yourself to be manouvered by some others, you may end up being straight jacketed. That means…
