Are We Not All Beggars? – Adewale Sobowale
There is no country like Nigeria. The people are unique in their Nigerians. We tend to flex our muscles over non-issues. We argue over inanities. That is why we are Nigerians! What is the business of lawmakers with begging and beggars? I understand some of our houses of assembly are busy legislating to remove beggars…
No Other Name! – Adewale Sobowale
I vividly remember Chief Ebenezer Obey’s song of the seventies, ‘Ohun ti o da o da’. In English, it means, ‘There is no other name to call a bad thing but bad’. It is no longer news that a section of the official residence of the Oba of Lagos, Iga Idunganran, was engulfed in a…
Daddy Ala’Ja! Dog Owner!! – Adewale Sobowale
With a great sense of pity, I watched Dr Badamasi Lawal Charachi, the Katsina state commissioner for education, explaining away the mass purchase of dogs! By the way, Katsina is in Nigeria, the state from which Mr Buhari hails. All those people from a particular state in the southwest, you may carefully go and have…
Theocratic Democracy – Adewale Sobowale
As the head of the Political jagbajantis, sorry, directorate, of RCCG has declared that Osinbajo is the only child of God and pastor who can take Nigeria to the promised land, I wouldn’t think any primary is necessary again for all the political parties in Nigeria. We should enthrone him as president immediately and automatically,…
May fool? – Adewale Sobowale
The news was agog yesterday about a court in the UK’s sentencing a Nigerian senator who, with his wife, was found guilty of organ harvesting. Knowing how the British love their holidays, and yesterday being Labour Day, were the courts in session? I googled it, and the answer was, “There are no court sittings.” I…


