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,…