I was taught a lesson recently. A damn good lesson! I would not normally go out of my way to buy aso ebi, party uniform. I made that rule for myself ages ago. I love good clothes. However, I don’t believe it’s anybody’s business to dictate anything I’ll be wearing to wherever at any point…

We should greet the presidency for taking care of the opposing groups on Buhari. A group is insistent that the president, Mr Buhari should either come back home and resume duties or he should stay in the UK or wherever. But he must resign. The other group is saying that since he has satisfied the…

The Western world has a lot of packagings. With the right packaging and a good marketing strategy one can sell ice to a man in Iceland. He would have forgotten that he doesn’t need it. Did you know that succotash is our own adalu. Adalu is a meal of corn (maize) and beans. Of course,…

Nigeria used to have quite a few number of colourful politicians. Some of them were TOS Benson, Adeniran Ogunsanya, Adegoke Adelabu, Maitama Sule, Aminu Kano, Chuba Okadigbo, JM Johnson, Obafemi Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola, Ahmadu Bello,KO Mbadiwe, Bola Ige, etc. Kingsleyz Ozumba Mbadiwe was born in Arondizuogu in 1910. He was educated at Hope Waddel Training…

What was that? Ogantable….something that one can not finish counting. Uncountable, but to our not so tutored ears, it sounded like, ‘ogantable’. Learning the English Language was not so easy for me. I can remember making some innocent errors in the beginning. However, thank God for little mercies. Nobody called the mother tongue, in this…

Yeah, we’re enjoying the sallah. Some people from the west were allegedly killed when they went to buy rams in the north. Newspapers featured how frantically we became while looking for sallah rams. We practically combed the whole of the north to get good bargains. In the same vein, we keep saying the northerners are…