Monday Lines

You know what it means to say “I won’t curse, I won’t pray – and I won’t keep quiet?’ That is what one should do on a day like this when democracy is 18 years […]

General Tukur Buratai is not your ordinary camel-riding Kanuri man. He is the no-nonsense, snake-charming Chief of Army Staff. He is not just about soldiering and rearing snakes in Abuja. He, last week, reminded us […]

Only daemons take from the poor. Any leader who steals food meant for the hungry is a daemon. Every nation has its daemonic affliction. Nigeria’s own cancer is its tribe of rapacious creations without inhibitions. […]

Chief Bisi Akande issued a statement last week. He said he loved the president so much he wept because Muhammadu Buhari could not show up at a wedding. When old people weep, then the situation […]

In 1920, an Indian king holidaying in London was taking a stroll along the street of a business district. Dressed in the simple tunic of the ordinary worker, he walked alone, nondescript. Then the contents […]

IF it is true that cemeteries now compete with our Central Bank as dollar vaults, then I give it to the depositors that they are smart. That is one place where the next-door neighbour won’t […]

“Big Ghana-Must-Go bags were streaming into a big man’s mansion in Lagos. They regularly go in there. When they go in, they don’t come out. A concerned associate wondered what the big man would say […]

THE enemy is always from outside. Murderous Boko Haram was caused by enemies of the north resident somewhere in the creeks. Fulani herdsmen are foreigners from Sahara desert. Epidemics are from God, angry at the […]

The two are very obviously street boys. One was asked to suggest solutions to the problems of the country. His answer was that “all our leaders should be given mass burial.” Another sat on a […]

FOLLY is the opposite of wisdom. And wisdom is the ultimate goodness, the very height of divine blessedness. We ride in a vehicle in which all that negate goodness take the front seat.  Even the […]