The Yoruba have a saying that concerns the elderly. The saying goes thus, ‘ogbon gbon lagbalagba fi nsa fun malu’. It literally translates to the fact that it’s with style that the elderly runs away from the ox. However, the deep meaning is that the elderly will always look before they leap. I thought OBJ…

The way Nigerian politicians manipulate billions makes me wonder how many Nigerians have ever seen not to talk of being in control of a billion Nigerian Naira. I’m not even referring to the masses. If you’re not a big time contractor or a very affluent person, I very much doubt if you could have come…

We need to thank the APC for seeing to the repentance of terrorists. You see, I’ve always had this nagging thought that the problems of terrorism in Nigeria can only be solved through religious means. I was even playing with a thought that since the two foremost candidates of the APC look like terrorists, they’ll…

Yoruba tradition is so replete with wise sayings. One of them is of a person that goes to the palm tree without doing anything while expecting his mouth to be filled with sweet syrupy palmwine. O sa’gi l’ogbe, o t’oguro l’ofa, o de’di ope, o gbenu s’oke, ofe nii nro na? A former president of…

I understand the labour leaders in Nigeria have settled for a minimum wage of seventy thousand naira, which is barely above $40. A 50kg bag of rice is sold for around that amount. That is to say, Mr Tinubu has graciously given labor a bag of rice! Shall we shout seventy gbosas for all the…