That blank space needs to be filled, by Muyiwa Adetiba
I attended the book launch of Deolu Folarin, a classmate and longtime friend a couple of weeks ago. Titled ‘An Odyssey of a life marked by grace’, the book was to capture the highs and lows of his journey of 75 years on earth. A couple of days later, I attended the book launch of […]
Dancing in my ears
By Muyiwa Adetiba It was about an hour past midnight and I had just entered the next phase of sleep when I heard the sound. It was the unmistakable hum of a mosquito. Somehow, and not for the first time, a lone mosquito had invaded the privacy of my room. I ignored it, more in […]
Too little, too late
By Muyiwa Adetiba The words of elders will always be evergreen irrespective of when they are uttered. Some four and a half decades ago, in 1978 to be precise, I had asked Julius Nyerere, the then Prime Minister of Tanzania, about the break-up of the East African Economic Council which was set up to promote […]
The trump in many of us
By Muyiwa Adetiba The Sunday Punch should be 50 this year. It means anybody who had any role to play in the newsroom at its birth or was around within its first year would today be at least fifty years in journalism. I was in the latter group. It makes me feel ancient to say […]
A city that welcomes you and your dreams
By Muyiwa Adetiba ‘Eko gba ole, o gba ole’ is a saying that is as popular and possibly nearly as old as Lagos itself. When translated literally, it means Lagos accommodates both the thieves and the slothful. But a deeper translation is that Lagos accommodates everybody without pre-conditions. Lagos is the most accepting of all […]
High stakes and conspiracy theories
By Muyiwa Adetiba I do not know where Chief Femi Fani-Kayode got his information that one of the leading Presidential contenders had a meeting with some Generals to plan something unsavory from. I hope for his sake that it is from a credible source and not from some beer parlour. He is a politician who […]
