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Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow EVEN both the hungry and the angry have cause to give thanks to God at least for surviving another season of hunger and anger. Americans celebrated their annual Thanksgiving Day Thursday, November 27, as usual with family gatherings with a lot of eating […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Have you heard the News? News, news, news..What news? That Mrs Latifa Chambers announced to the world that her husband, James Chambers has passed away. Who is Latifa? Who is James Chambers? They are one and the same. Tokotaya? I mean Mr and […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow OC! Good morning, sir. Good morning to you, too. What can I do you for (or is it do for you)? Whichever, sir. Actually, I’m here to seek your help to uncover certain but very essential details about “the talk of the town […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow He flew in on the wings of Aliko Dangote, the man who helped him cut short his trip to Rwanda in order to attend the 65th birthday anniversary of Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti State and “enfant terrible” of post military politics… […] More
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
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