In This Age? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: CNN Unbelievable’s happening;Instead of buildingGlobal perpetuity;We’re besieged with mortality! Is Putin being kind to History?Even if he gains victory;With environmental degradation;Arising from wildlife extinction! Unfathomable scale of ruination;Resulting from destruction;Of obliterated villages and cities;By modernized savages! All is now set;For uninhabited planets;Solid city walls;Must take falls! Thought human lives sacrosanct;Not before unpleasant;Imbecilic savages;Who…

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Na wah o! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Tour Nigeria Abeokuta is an interesting place to live in. Almost everyone knows whom you are. If not directly, then by extension. But for me, I find life in Abeokuta somewhat on the dull side. People generally do not wake up until around six o’Clock in the morning. OK, people hardly get to…

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Odun Eegun! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Dubawa The average Yoruba should be wisdom personified. That’s because embedded in the tradition and culture of the Yoruba are words of wisdom and wisecracks that could serve the discerning for a lifetime. One of these is that the egungun festival will end and acolytes who had been eating like royalty will soon…

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Universal basic income needed!

Photo credit: RNZ With the coming of artificial intelligence into our industries, productivity is bound to be increased, but the opportunity cost of the increase in production is, of course, a great increase in job losses.  The man regarded as the “godfather of artificial intelligence” has told the BBC that a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of…

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A glimpse at Tinubunomics!

Photo credit: Premium By Adewale Sobowale, I need to make a confession, and that’s I’m not a supporter of Mr Bola Tinubu’s administration. Since it’s the fashion in Nigeria to describe those who do not support the ruling class/party/president as unpatriotic, we’re seeing what the so-called patriotic elements are doing in the corridors of power….

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