People Vary! Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Channels TV The news of the brutal murder of eighty six people in Nigeria’s middle belt state of Plateau shocked me. It’s not as if the killing will be the first, but then, it set me thinking about the sort of person a killer would be. Since I’m not a psychologist all I…

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Clueless! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times I really don’t know the section of Nigeria’s constitution which states that political party executives should be sworn in by the attorney general of the federation. The fact that a brand new national working committee of the ruling party was sworn in by the attorney general of the federation seems to…

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Decaying Society! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Channels Quite a lot of people have commented on the killing of a CEO by his erstwhile girlfriend or sidechick in popular parlance! However, the way I see the whole issue is that of a decaying society from which the basic values and norms have fled. Before that gruesome incident, had other condemnable…

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Refugees trapped in Indonesia!

Photo credit: Arab News Even though Indonesia is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 and its 1967 protocol, it has had a long history of accepting refugees. However, the government does not allow refugees and asylum seekers to work. Many had fled to the country as a jumping-off point, hoping to…

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Dead Has Gone! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Nairaland I’m always fascinated at the fervour with which we prepare for funerals. So many people get into debts to bury their dead. A Yoruba saying goes that if a fraction of the care and money spent on funerals is spent on the invalid, most people will not be dying unnecessary deaths. And…

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Odun Lo De! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Punch The market places are agog. No seller can honestly say they don’t have would-be buyers. It’s only the actual buyers that may not be forth coming. Even the chicken processors are in good business. See, the Id’el fitri is a chicken celebration. Chicken hawkers are busy, layers, broilers, etc. The chickens…

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Haunting Past! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: People’s Gazette History is the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. It’s also described as the whole series of past events connected with someone or something! Hmmm… Little wonder, our dealers, sorry leaders are trying their best to put History as a subject in our school syllabus. At least, we must…

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