When I was a kid, I can still remember situations when for one reason or the other, I refused to eat. It normally happened when I was annoyed. Whenever that happened, my mother wouldn’t utter any word. She would go have her own meal and for what I then thought was an overkill, she would…

Our people in Nigeria seem to have resigned to fate. I say this with a lot of distaste. Distaste because I just feel that under no circumstances, must a dislike for evil deeds be stopped. But our people seem to have lost their voices. I’m referring specifically to the recent kidnap of over 200 pupils…

I’ve long become convinced that human beings – no matter their pigmentation, economic situation, ability or otherwise, height or weight, are either good or bad! For that reason, I’ve been castigated by some who are blind to what I’m seeing! Human beings are rainbows, each of us a fragment of colour. Humanity shines when its…

I’m not a mathematician, but I know that the six Yoruba state governors, in the actual sense, are really less than half of a whole number. We all know the federal government is of little use to the common man. I stand to be corrected, we’ve never had it so bad at the center. Even…

So, killings are now the order of the day in Nigeria. I really wonder how we got to this state of things in Nigerian society. In the Nigeria of my childhood, criminality was scorned. There’s no society that’s crime-free, but the frequency of crimes in Nigeria is alarming. Those involving human lives are simply pathetic….