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Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 28 February, 2022) Kabiyesi means ‘we dare not question him.’ The nearest to its meaning is what my Hausa friend does with effusive ‘Ranka dede’ at the feet of his lord. The above headline should actually […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 21 February, 2022) There was a man in London 300 years ago called Jonathan Wild. He lived at a time robbery and violent crimes were rampant in the city – day and night. The people were […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published ín the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 14 February, 2022). Last Tuesday at the public presentation of my book, ‘Cowries of Blood’, a reporter asked me to crack the title. I smiled the question off. I hope my quizzer reads this and connects […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 7 February, 2022) I experienced him for the first time as he was introduced as Imam Orimadegun. He was asked to preach at a Muslim burial service last Saturday in Osogbo, Osun State. He picked the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 31 January, 2022) How do you address a people who create a situation and then turn round to play the victim? The National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, talked tough in […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 24 January, 2022) Some people sold their father’s land to purchase guns; now that war is in their home, they are begging for where to stand on to use the weapons. I got that sense from […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 17 January, 2022). The aged died, we replaced him with the chronically ill; who does not know that there will be wailing once more soon in the palace. (Arugbo ku a fi olokunrun j’oye; taa ni […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 10 January, 2022) Once upon a time, I got a book gift from Charly Boy. Like many in my generation, I love books, especially unusual ones. And that precisely was what I got from the son […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 27 December, 2021) Proverbs are not just the palm oil with which yam is eaten; they are the yam. Where I come from, there are a million proverbs for every experience of life. Some people are […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 20 December, 2021) ‘The Man who looks history in the face’ is the title Professor Wole Soyinka put on the Foreword. Of course, “the man” here is Bisi Akande, the author of ‘My Participations’, an autobiography […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 13 December, 2021) There is a huge noise over Chief Bisi Akande’s autobiography released on Thursday, December 9, 2021 in Lagos. I have not read the book. But I have read what the media says the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published on Monday, 29 November, 2021) A month from now, it will be over for the year 2021; a new year will be born. The Bantu people say the road does not tell the traveller what lies ahead. Is that also true here? […] More
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