Olopa ma ko, everybody! – Adewale Sobowale
Oh yes! Police go arrest taya! I noticed a popularly controversial singer, or is it a controversially famous singer(?) has been running from pillar to post pleading with the EFCC and people who know some people who know those in power that he shouldn’t be arrested because of the money he’d been spraying is for…
You Can’t Do Nothing! – Adewale Sobowale
Sometime last week, the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay said Mr Muhammad Buhari will adopt the 1984 despotic style of rulership when he is reelected for a second term of office. Maybe most youths are not aware of Buhari’s unnecessary anger after he and his cohort deemed it fit…
Goose And Gander! – Adewale Sobowale
The prosecution and conviction of a popular actress and her husband in court are now part of our COVID-19 history. But then, I thought the courts in Lagos State were on a COVID break. Anyway, the accused pled guilty, and justice was served. However, some artists were to point out that the number of journalists…
AMÚKÛN…K–LEGGED… – Adewale Sobowale
I know better than criticizing anyone’s physical appearance. But the Yorùbá have a saying, “amúkûn ẹrù ẹ́ wọ́” and he responds, “òkè lẹ̀ ǹwó ẹ wò sàlẹ̀”. It means, some person calling the k–legged man that whatever he’s carrying is not balanced and he replies that the caller should look at his legs. In the…
Spain urges Europe to recognise Palestine!
Pedro Sanchez, the Prime Minister of Spain and a long time supporter of Palestinian rights believes the recognition of Palestine as a state is a way of reaching a two-state solution. He also sees it as an end to the seemingly unending conflicts between the two states. However, he risks the Israeli state’s wrath. Israel’s war…
Volunteers rebury refugees!
Nearly ten years after some asylum seekers were buried on a field in Kato Tritos, Greece, a group of volunteers turned the abandoned and overgrown field into a burial ground that was inaugurated on Wednesday. MEMO reports that the volunteers spent months clearing the plot, uncovering and counting graves that had disappeared beneath tall grass…