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On the Lord’s Day
Still on ‘clipping the wings of Alapere canal…’
OOU people have a saying, to wit: For as long as you have bugs (lice) in your hair or clothes, there will always be blood on your nails. This is so because you must repeatedly and constantly seek out the tormentors and extirpate them before…
Clipping the wings of Alapere canal
Akure is the Ondo State capital. The panegyric of the people runs thus: Akure l’omi meji/O p’ejeji l’Ala/ Ala se bi ere bi ere/Ala d’omi ebo. Translated: Akure has two rivers/It named both Ala/Like play; like play/Ala became rivers you must…
Zamfara leads, will others follow?
THE saying, usually, is: Who bells the cat? The story is told that rats met one day and the agenda was how to put a halt to the havoc the cat was wreaking in the rats’ midst. Suggestions after suggestions were considered before the rats, in…
Back to my roots…
Penultimate Friday, I went back to my roots – Owo in Ondo State. Mission was to give Madam Felicia Aboyinbogun - Iye Bimbo (Bimbo’s mother) – a befitting burial. And, truly, the burial was glorious! Just like Madam Aboyinbogun was my…
Still on Makinde and Ibadan’s recurring house of horror
Just like the prodding of a respected younger professional colleague moved me to take a look at the Ibadan house of horror last week, so also has the intervention of a senior professional colleague that I owe a lot of respect moved me to…
Makinde and Ibadan’s recurring house of horror
I have lost count of how many houses of horror have been unearthed in various parts of the country in recent time, starting from the North before berthing, last week, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital and famed largest city in West Africa.…
A tale of firewood mama told me
I recently heard that jollof rice cooked with/on firewood tastes better than the one cooked with/on gas. I also heard that jollof rice cooked with/on charcoal/coal sits in-between – not as tasty as the former but tastes better than the…
Kogi’s paradox of six and half-a-dozen
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. —Ecclesiastes 1: 15
As Lagosians rage: Sanwo-Olu, how now?
When France sneezes, Europe catches cold —Metternich.
Sex predators: Is castration the answer?
The increasing cases of rape and defiling of little children in Ekiti require urgent attention. The amendment being sought may include imprisonment and medical castration of offenders, among others not stipulated in the existing law —Erelu…