Tinubu hasn’t done half of his term. But he already thinks he is entitled to a second and perhaps more terms. The obsequious lackeys he has surrounded himself won’t let him catch a moment for sober reflection,  a glimpse of reality. They seem bent on making him the Oba of Nigeria, unaccountable to no one […]

A friend came visiting recently. It was his first time to the house so I took him round our home before settling him in the family living room which I felt was cozier since it was just the two of us. He commended the arrangement of the apartment and its ‘view’. Compliments over, we settled down to […]

A wise child brings joy to a father; a foolish child brings grief to a mother, King Solomon was quoted as saying in Proverbs10:1. Why exactly the father takes joy in glorying in the output of a wise son may be an argument for theological experts. However, why the father is left out in the agonies […]

My article last week generated some questions. But until the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, is proven guilty of ethnic or religious bigotry, I stand by what I wrote. I also support an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the glitch. Anyone found culpable should be punished.  Just in […]

YES, you read that right: Nigeria is currently under invasion by peoples from the Sahel, fleeing the twin effects of climate change and virulent terrorism and banditry. But first, let us put this in context. According to Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Barbarian invasions, or the movements of Germanic peoples began before 200 BCE and lasted until the early Middle […]