Re: Ibadans Are Happy With The Roads; We Even Want More: By Babajide Alex Adetunji: Another Unforced Error By A Busy Body. I just finished reading the article by another Busy Body who goes by the name of Babajide Alex Adetunji. I hope he truly exists. When I read the headline, series of thoughts raced through my mind. However, when I saw the names of the clown who signed it and I read through the story and discovered that the fellow provided no dint of information about his status and what qualifies him to speak on behalf of Ibadan, I…
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I saw pictures and some videos from the APC South West meeting held in Lagos some days ago and I must admit that I was worried. Why won’t any sincere Party man be worried? Why? My worries increased when I read the Communique released after the said meeting. I have no issues with the content of the Communique. My worries arose as a result of my deep reflections about the scenarios at the meeting vis a vis my quip about the particular gains or benefits we, as a Party in Oyo state could point to as take away from the…
There is no way a man would judge his own case and lose. That is the logical basis for the legal maxim nemo judex in causa sua. It is the reason an umpire’s company is always of interest to contestants. It has been repeatedly said that unless Nigerians break the unholy alliance between the tripodal axis of evil of political office holders, the electoral umpire, and the judiciary, they will continue to have dross for democracy. At every election cycle, that alliance is similar to the Yoruba egbìnrìn òtè, an endless alliance of conspirators, where massive graft is the lingua…
On April 4, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy Inside the ‘Oneida.’ It was a lamentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s knee-jerk and off-the-cuff jetting out of Aso Rock Villa like a wandering evil spirit. At the drop of a hat, Buhari flew to the United Kingdom to attend to his health. But for the removal of Buhari’s name and its substitution with ‘Bola Tinubu,’ this piece is almost a complete cyclostyle of that Buhari piece. In 1849, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a French writer, pioneered a phrase which has become…
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…
“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…