I passed through the Omi Adio/ Ido Road on my way to Eruwa yesterday and I was shocked to see that a Road commissioned for use in about a year ago is already having issues to the extent that there are potholes on the Road. I am not surprised at all. The quality of the Roads Governor Makinde has been constructing, most especially, outside the state capital is nothing to write about and before you jump up in defence of the Governor, go check on the Road by yourself. The Ido/New Eruwa stretch of the Road has gone so bad…
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“Iya n baby, kilo fun baby, baby ko gboran, o nlo gunbepe, to ba subu ko si kan mi nbe, a fabe yagi “. The above was a warning folksong we were used to when we were younger. It translates as a warning to a kid engaged in dangerous play. The end result of dangerous play is likened to a fall that occassioned a burst rostrum for the kid who tried to climb the pawpaw tree. It is a figurative song. The pawpaw tree is considered a very dangerous tree to climb because of its frail nature and every dangerous…
Obviously, because I am the unauthorised biographer of Ayinla Omowura, the musical enfant terrible of Yorubaland of the 1970s, I have been inundated by requests to lend a voice to an ongoing debate which has spiralled in Omowura’s hometown of Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun state. The debate stemmed from a claim by a man who said that, for four years, he investigated the “mysterious” death of the Yoruba Apala music lord and “unearthed startling revelations” therefrom. Rather than the popular and legal affirmation that Omowura was murdered in a barroom brawl in May, 1980 in Abeokuta by his erstwhile…
In Arabian folklore, the genie is a spirit depicted as being imprisoned inside a bottle or oil lamp. No matter how impregnable the walls of its captivity are, the moment it is summoned, the spirit comes out and grants the wishes of the one who invoked it. Trust them for their gift of incredible ingenuity, in the thick of their daily pain, Nigerians trip above their existential woes to summon the genius within them. Their latest invocation is a perfect-fit moniker which they affix to their president’s lapel. To them, their president’s diverse self-procured prefixes – Asiwaju, Jagaban etc –…
I stumbled on a Facebook post by one of the appointees of the Speaker of the Oyo state House of Assembly this morning. The Speaker, Adebo Ogundoyin, was in Eruwa over the weekend to attend the Children Harvest celebration of the First Baptist Church, Anko, Eruwa. His late father, Adeseun Ogundoyin was a member of the same Church. In short, you could consider the First Baptist Church, Anko, Eruwa as the family Church of the Ogundoyins. When I read the post and I saw the pictures attached there to, a lot of questions rushed to my mind. I immediately recollect…
Nigerians and indeed, the world, watched aghast last week as a South African grisly movie reel began to roll. Full of all the elements of a movie, it was however a real story. The cast was two black women who, on August 17, were shot and fed to pigs by a white farmer. The victims, Maria Makgato, 45 and Lucia Ndlovu, 34 were scavenging for edible food in consignments of recently expired or soon-to-be-expired produce on a farm located near Polokwane, a South African northern Limpopo province. The expired edible foods were meant for pigs. Before her gruesome murder, Makgato…
The holy book of the Christians in Genesis 4 vs 7 says “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” This scriptural verse succinctly describe the recent ranting of Engr. Seyi Abiodun Makinde, the Executive Governor of our dear state, Oyo. Nearly all News media quoted Mr Governor – the former star boy of PDP National and Ex sole proprietor of Southwest PDP – shouting on top of his voices “I…
Last night, I saw the video of an Ibadan based Fuji Musician whose son is also a member of the Oyo state House of Assembly. In the video, the Fuji Musician, who was also appointed by Governor Makinde as SA on kinni kan, I wouldn’t remember the exact portfolio assigned to the gentleman but I think it has to do with Culture, the fellow was boasting about how both himself and his son have been drawing salaries from Government. The gentleman was making the statement to show off and establish superiority over some colleagues. Fuji Musicians and superiority fights are…
If the likes of Awolowo, Bola Ige, Lam Adesina and other notable Progressives who dedicated their lives and times to good governance through progressive ideas and ideals were to be alive today, they must have distanced themselves from and condemned, in very strong terms, the selfish and wicked principles of president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Even in their graves, this great men who sacrificed their convenience, freedom and in many instances, happiness to build and sustain what we see and refer to as Democratic principles must be shifting, rolling and shuddering in their graves any time they look back and see…
On February 18, 1947, the Daily Service newspaper published a story whose theme, like the ancient Secretarybird, has remained with Nigeria ever since. It is a story of the affinity between sex and corruption. Son of Alake of Egbaland and a no-nonsense judge, Justice Adetokunbo Ademola, then of the Lagos Santa Anna Magistrate Court, presided over the matter. After the wotowoto of the prosecution and defence, Ademola sentenced a female welfare officer, Ayodele Potts-Johnson, to six months imprisonment, without an option of fine. Potts-Johnson’s crime was demanding and collecting bribes of the sums of #5.30s and 25s.2d. from two prostitutes,…