Dear General Muhammadu Buhari, Congratulations Sir! I have spent the past weeks since your victory was announced in near boundless euphoric excitement and propitious reverie. The reason is as crystal as ice. I had asked myself a year back, what the future would hold in the next five years. The answers that came sat with…
Kidati – A Poem
The perfectly drawn of France’s curve, To light up the oval kingdom, Host to my adoration; Your smile. Your sharp and cat-ed eyes, Mild in sight, but stout in mind, My seer of all that is beautiful Good and worthy. Hair, as the sunrise flow of the Lake of Bagauda. Her, the apex of beauty…
Meeting The Hoi Polloi – Between Town-hall Meetings And a Presidential Debate
It is very rare to see a grown man cry, and when it happens one need not be told that there is a big problem. On the 18th of March, I watched in sobriety as a retired Colonel in the Nigerian army shed tears while lamenting the non-payment of pension of military officers for 54…
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan; Charity Begins at Home
While it is disgusting and morally deficient for a woman to stand before people and make iniquitous and inciting remarks, it saddens me more that a woman guilty of this, unfortunately and most unfortunately is the first lady of our dear country – a deemed mother figure to our nation. Her hateful and ill-cultured utterances…
My Birthday List – TOBI Johannes Wojuola is 23 #January18th
I have thought over the past few days, What do I do for my birthday? What gift do I give to everyone? Something worthy of your friendship and emotions you have spent over the years and months on me. What do I collect from you all too? But here in Kano, the harmattan seems not…
Who WE REA [ARE]
Forty years from his conception, he’ll think back and ask himself questions. Pondering on the decisions he never took and those he took; in all the omissions and commissions that he embarked on that have made him who he is today. A man becomes who he is when he is able to conceive the purpose…
Welcome to my world – The Gallery
“My world is an art gallery. Everything I see, to me, has this amazing aesthetic and ornamental presentation in its existence. As far as I am concerned, there is a most profound beauty in every creature. And even in our acts, our every smile, move, gesture, stillness and mood, there lies in each, a unique…
22 Things I Have Learnt In This Sojourn – A GIFT TO THE WORLD
– 18TH JANUARY, 2014 – Dear friends, colleagues, family, lovers, admirers and acquaintances, Today marks the most important date in my existence, cherished most of all because it was the date I was born to my parents – to my mother specifically on that cold winter morning in Biberach, as she puts it. I…
The Bricklayer’s Explanation to Oil Price Fall, Naira Devaluation & Everything Else
Exceptional and self-explanatory on our present economic predicament.
TO MOTHERHOOD – Happy Birthday Mum
I had intended to write on a different topic for the month of November, one different from the heading you see. And I do not think that the month of November plays host to the almost quarterly occurring Mother’s Day. I had intended to write and already begun the first few paragraphs on the topic,…