Seed of my troubled youth,I do praise you.For your resilience;And patience!Could have made,Ziĺlion dollar bales,But for fate,Which is affected by faith.If not for you,I would have wasted my youth.People said I should visitThe dibia, whether he willFind a solution to you,Being the you!But, ibi ori da’ni si,Ao gbodo fi tele!To ba w’Olodumare,A fun mi.Bi o…
Every April 27, South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day.” Saturday, April 27, was not in any way different. South Africans came out in their millions to remember their first democratic election in 1994. That election officially sent the racial segregation system of apartheid into the annals of history. The 1994 election was a turning point…
Ajmal Khan, a 17-year-old Afghan, drowned while crossing the Drina River in Tuzla, the third largest city in Bosnia-Herzegovina. NPR reports that the deceased was on his migrants, but no one claims—a way to Western Europe to find work. While it is a fact that thousands of migrants have died or gone missing in Europe, dozens…
These are definitely not the best of times for asylum seekers. They are practically being hounded from most countries in Europe and the Americas. The case of those in the UK is probably the worst. The British government has succeeded in passing the “Illegal Immigration Bill” into law, and Rwanda is waiting for the very…
Let’s be thanking God for little mercies. Let’s thank Him for all things. I’m rereading Olusegun Adeniyi’s ‘The Last 100 Days of Abacha’. All the killings and attempted killings. The so-called phantom coup. The adoption of the ‘five fingers of the same hand’, as the late Bola Ige described the political parties of that troubled…
If I had the opportunity, I would have asked the Nigerian President what happened during the lockdown to warrant easing it from next Monday. I would have even asked him if he had succeeded in getting an okay from COVID-19 that it must only strike at night. That would have informed him of a curfew…
There’s no doubt that Nollywood – Nigeria’s version of Hollywood – is going places. With the number of Nigerians progressively committing the offence of japaing, the sky is the beginning for our thespians. The movies are doing a lot in reminding one of home. But there are quite a few things to be done. For…
