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 […]
The ‘Emilokan’ syndrome
By Muyiwa Adetiba When Asiwaju Bola Tinubu made that famous ‘emilokan’ remark as part of a rambling, incoherent speech, it was to a small audience in Ogun State. But the import of that remark reverberated throughout the country within hours. It was in that speech that he referred to a sitting Governor as ‘eleyi’ meaning […]
The politics of gun control
By Muyiwa Adetiba I handled a gun last month. It was my first time. I had however been acquainted with different calibers of guns as a young man reading James Hadley Chase novels and other such detective works of fiction. I knew a .22 for example to be a lady’s gun. Something slim and feminine that could […]
My Anniversary Prayer: Lord, please let our ‘Japa’ children return
By Muyiwa Adetiba He was a medical doctor with his own practice. His wife was a Director in a multi-national company. He was in his late forties. His wife, a few years younger. Together, they had a set of twins. Together, they had purchased their own home. They were members of top recreational clubs. The twins attended […]
Too much visibility could cause you to lose your mystique
By Muyiwa Adetiba Sometimes in the middle 90s – around the June 12 period – the then Military Governor of Lagos State paid a semi-official visit to our publishing house. We were then publishing an evening paper at Oregun which is a stone’s throw from Alausa, the State Government’s seat of power. He spent the better part […]
My first trip out since Covid-19
By Muyiwa Adetiba My first trip out of Nigeria in almost three years started with a phone call from my daughter and my nephew. They must have worked on a sales pitch together. My brother who had over the years, shown an even greater unwillingness to travel, had been persuaded to attend his granddaughter’s graduation […]
What do you find yourself exchanging for wealth?
By Muyiwa Adetiba Many prominent lawyers in their middle to late 70s will probably describe the last few months as a season of bereavements. As the funeral rites of one were being announced, the news of another one breathing his last followed. I personally know about four who died in quick successions including one who […]
Opinions will differ but which will you call the best years of life?
By Muyiwa Adetiba I know many people who say the best years of their lives are the secondary school years. I know some who will swear that their childhood years were the best years. Those who belong to the latter group remember the fierce love of parents who shielded them from every real and imaginary harm. […]
The consequences of bad governance
By Muyiwa Adetiba Living currently in an estate where quite a lot of construction work still goes on, I tend to see a bit of how the poor in the community operate. There are those who wake up with the crack of dawn to prepare food for those who have no pot let alone a […]
What happens when leaders love their religion more than their country
By Muyiwa Adetiba Once upon a time, Lebanon was a beautiful country. Such a beautiful country. The weather was as warm as the people. It soon became the pride of the Arabs in general and a hunting ground for the Arab rich in particular – I remember those houses on the hills in Beirut with […]
ASUU needs to be told it is destroying its own profession
Trust the social media to make fun of everything. A foreigner was said to have asked a young Nigerian in the diaspora what ASUU meant since he often heard young Nigerians mention it. The young man said without hesitation that ASUU was the acronym for an organization which forces Nigerian Universities to close down constantly.
