Carrying coal to Nescastle, by Muyiwa Adetiba
Regular users tell me that the road from Sagamu interchange to the Lagos end is usually about thirty minutes if the traffic is light and about forty-five minutes if it is heavy, which often happens at weekends. Recently, it took us – my two friends and I – almost four hours to navigate that journeyand […]
Our leaders must make sacrifices too
By Muyiwa Adetiba We all literally woke up last week to find the pump price increased – again. Almost every administration does this at least once during its tenure. The script remains the same while the actors vary. Government of the day increases price, the petrol stations rush to comply, a bargaining see-saw ensues between […]
The house that ‘Mrs J’ sold
By Muyiwa Adetiba We were next door neighbours physically but he was actually more than a neighbour. He was like a senior brother. When my then pregnant wife had labour pains around midnight, it was to his wife a matron, we turned. That was our first real contact. Until then, we merely exchanged polite greetings […]
COVID 19: Why is Africa not picking bodies on the streets?
By Muyiwa Adetiba Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a grim and dire prediction concerning Africa at the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. She warned that Africa would be the most vulnerable of all the continents and expressed fear that health officials might end up picking dead bodies on the streets. […]
What do we wish for our children?
By Muyiwa Adetiba I had prepped myself for a two night vigil in order to watch the first two days of the US Democratic National Convention (DNC) knowing a continuous four day vigil would be difficult at my age. I know I could have recorded the speeches and watch them at my leisure. But there […]
Just how low are we going to sink?
A couple of years ago, a young lady working at the JAMB office stunned the nation when she said the JAMB money in her possession was swallowed by a snake. It was such an incredulous admission that the social media made a joke of it for quite a while. Even the regular, mainstream media made jocular comments.
2023: A competent southerner must emerge
Professor Bolaji Akinyemi epitomises both professional and personal success. He is a pride to his generation which already has a constellation of competent, accomplished names. Prof was in the news last week doing us proud again by lending his experience and intellect to the affairs of the nation.
COVID 19: Should the house of God be opened now?
There are stark reminders all around us if we needed any, of the strange times we are in. Yesterday typified one of them.
Seeking happiness in created things
On the eve Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua, the founding Managing Director of the defunct Democrat Newspaper died, Eric Teniola, my colleague and good friend, called to intimate me as he often does whenever any event of mutual concern or a momentous development occurs.
The parable of the Log and the Speck
It was reported last week that our President wrote to the President of South Africa who is currently the Head of AU (African Union) on the debilitating effect of corruption in Africa.
Who really are we?
The whole country was bursting with pride some thirty-five years ago when Professor Wole Soyinka became the first black man to win the Nobel Prize for literature. I was the Editor of Vanguard Newspapers then and was therefore in a vantage position to witness the buzz that swept across the country.
