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Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Second time around and what a SOUR taste in the mouth again! What’s missing or who is missing in action? On Sunday, October 19, 1986, I was in our NEWSWATCH newsroom expecting Dele Giwa, editor-in-chief to brief me and offer a written note […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow I read Ola Rotimi’s THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME many many years ago and the words of Kurunmi, the Generalissimo, still ring in my ears. Bring them up! “Ibadan warriors are like horses, full of muscles, no sense” Akiika! That’s wicked! How […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow As I was Saying, I am not Agbara Ojo who… Agbara what?! Agbara who do or does what? Agbara Ojo. No, I’m not. I’m not agbara ojo who… Wait again! Are you kidney me? How do you mean and who is arguing with […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The “body shattering” cold was still hanging around, waiting probably and most diabolically to teach me a lesson or two on how not to joke with weather in temperate zones, especially while just coming out of winter. I did not know that. To […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow See me see trouble. O my! Trouble ke?! Me I no see any trouble with you. Na your unkempt person that I dey look at. Look well, well. No be me you dey see with all this your kongba, binocular eagle eyes. So, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Before he left Naija to continue his, daily therapeutic regime in Scotland Johnny Walker was a regular feature on the corrugated streets of the area his “chi” had consigned him since the wind vane of health showed him a new direction for survival. […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It was a moment of respite, Saturday, April 5. Otutu buruku yen, that crazy cold of Springtime Glasgow, subsided a little to enable us sneak out and head out of the city at noon. Destination? Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, a city steeped […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Dramatist Personae: Ivan the Terrible wants more land. “Enfant (adult?) Terrible:” wants minerals to offset the cost of shuttle diplomacy, bargaining power and GSM telephone bills. Oliver Twist: wanted, wants, is wanting, will want more sooner or later. Africa faced same fate in […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Never judge a book by its cover, so they say. The title of The Book by the first military President Nigeria ever had looks too ordinary to attract, to quote Donald J Trump, billions and billions of buyers and trillions of potential readers! […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Africa has had its own share of dilapidating and dilapidated democracy. What do you mean? I mean there was a time that some countries in Africa evolved from participatory democracy to mock democracy of one strongman becoming the sole ruler and reducing others […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Umaru DIKKO, the flamboyant minister in the Shehu Shagari regime of the early 1980s was once quoted to have said that those complaining of hunger in the country then were not being fair and honest enough to the government. In what capacity did […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow HOP, STEP AND FALL! Yeparipa! There goes down the coordinator of the Sunday school programme. Hence it was MIA, missing in action, for him and Sunday School on Sunday. He was on his usual weekend walk – around, doing jelenke jogging in the […] More
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