Photo credit: Niarametrics Ita gbangba lo wa! Battered by hunger;Freezing in tropical winter;A tool always;Political mule he is! L’aiwo sokoto! For grandmasters;Whose scions enjoy;Fruits of dubious ploys;Common mugun;Irascible mumu;Erratic ode! L’aiwo kijipa! Hunger his nemesis;Kwashiorkor lining;His fruits’ bellies;Does he think?Only when hungry! Ita gbangba lo wa! @ as11/17/19
Photo credit: the Conversation King of the road,Eating our produce.Sikira oniwo,Goes spreading terror. Jokes we cracked,We ne’er flee lorriesCattle we would440 + 220 for. Fear of cowherdsBegins one’s wisdom.Modernised they areAK47 a-plenty. In their wake.Poor farmers they leave,Some dead, others wounded,Farms and dwellings burnt. Thus goes humanity,Where’s food security?They are winning,Another colonising! @ as 012518
Photo credit: Aljazeera Nine out of ten of the world’s most neglected displaced people are in Africa.. The Norwegian Refugee Council’s annual report says Burkina Faso is leading the table for the second consecutive year. Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Niger, Honduras, South Sudan, the Central Arab Republic, Chad and Sudan follow it. Jan Egeland,…
Photo credit: Vanguard It was a long day in Nigeria as the main labour unions—the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress—began a nationwide strike on Monday. They effectively shut down the beleaguered nation, sealing the national grid and disrupting strikes because they could not negotiate a new minimum wage with the government. The…
Photo credit: Punch The English language is very interesting. It is for its sarcasm. Most of us for whom it is a second language are not aware of this intricacy. For instance, some nations are described as ‘developing’ nations. In most cases, these are African and Asian nations. One thing that is common to this…
Photo credit: Nairaland Informed rumours say the model schools in Ogun state will cost pupils four hundred thousand naira per term. That is a whopping one million, two hundred thousand naira per session. Hmmm! Now, I see the reason why the state government did not bother to develop the infrastructure of the older schools. Will…
Ilu Oyinbo has disappointed me! Could you believe it? A power outage has caused most of the essential services to pack up. It came around 7am. I was just having a late nap jejely, pretending to read a book. I then noticed the lights had gone off. What’s so oyinboish about ilu Oyinbo? Common light…
