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Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow As a young man I used to read as many newspapers as I could lay my hands on. The New Nigerian was one of them and what I liked most in this daily was CANDIDO, a kind of grapevine column. It was not […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow You need to see him at the old Race Course, Ibadan, (now Adamasingba Stadium), the setting of a scene in the filming of KONGI’S HARVEST, he was a fierce looking character, Kongi, the fictional dictator of an imaginary African country. Was I there? […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow He has his finger in every pie. He jumps from one fry pan to the other, in some cases into an inferno. His restless “afopina” has strayed into Naija campfire. Dangerous gambit, that is. His niece, Mary, once described him as the “most […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Good morning, class. Today we want to take a look at the Ten Commandments as handed down to Moses on Mt. Sinai, the rationale for the “dos and don’ts” , their impact on our lives, how adequate they are and how civilisation has […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Second time around and what a SOUR taste in the mouth again! What’s missing or who is missing in action? On Sunday, October 19, 1986, I was in our NEWSWATCH newsroom expecting Dele Giwa, editor-in-chief to brief me and offer a written note […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow I read Ola Rotimi’s THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME many many years ago and the words of Kurunmi, the Generalissimo, still ring in my ears. Bring them up! “Ibadan warriors are like horses, full of muscles, no sense” Akiika! That’s wicked! How […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow As I was Saying, I am not Agbara Ojo who… Agbara what?! Agbara who do or does what? Agbara Ojo. No, I’m not. I’m not agbara ojo who… Wait again! Are you kidney me? How do you mean and who is arguing with […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The “body shattering” cold was still hanging around, waiting probably and most diabolically to teach me a lesson or two on how not to joke with weather in temperate zones, especially while just coming out of winter. I did not know that. To […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow See me see trouble. O my! Trouble ke?! Me I no see any trouble with you. Na your unkempt person that I dey look at. Look well, well. No be me you dey see with all this your kongba, binocular eagle eyes. So, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Before he left Naija to continue his, daily therapeutic regime in Scotland Johnny Walker was a regular feature on the corrugated streets of the area his “chi” had consigned him since the wind vane of health showed him a new direction for survival. […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It was a moment of respite, Saturday, April 5. Otutu buruku yen, that crazy cold of Springtime Glasgow, subsided a little to enable us sneak out and head out of the city at noon. Destination? Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, a city steeped […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Dramatist Personae: Ivan the Terrible wants more land. “Enfant (adult?) Terrible:” wants minerals to offset the cost of shuttle diplomacy, bargaining power and GSM telephone bills. Oliver Twist: wanted, wants, is wanting, will want more sooner or later. Africa faced same fate in […] More
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