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My Lord, Tell me Where to Keep your Bribe, By Niyi Osundare

July 18, 2023Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Do I drop it in your venerable chambers Or carry the heavy booty to your immaculate mansion Shall I bury it in the capacious water tank In your well laundered backyard Or will it breathe better in the septic tank Since money can deodorize the smelliest crime Shall I haul it up the attic Between […]

Remember Rwanda, By Niyi Osundare

April 8, 2023Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Parables from Our Recent Polls I The journey from hate to holocaust is perilously short. . . .* In the national ballot just concluded: Many voted their tribe Many, their tongue Many saw nothing holier than Crosses and Crescents In the polling booth Utterly mesmerised by The poisonous correspondence Of region and religion Many […]

Incompetence weds corruption, By Niyi Osundare

February 10, 2023Bode DoluLeave a Comment

The Quickest Way to Kill A Nation 1 Pepeye, nigba too m’owe Ki lo be l’udo se?* Incompetence weds Corruption** And a dark, unruly tragedy is born As the Nation thrashes about Like a snake without a head Do you really wonder Why so much power Should be thrust upon Those with so little […]

Nigeria’s Holy Romance With Ignorance (Random musings on an internet exchange between two compatriots on “The Power of Science”), By Niyi Osundare

January 14, 2022Bode DoluLeave a Comment

“Ours is a tragic case. We are the most unscientific people on earth” –Bunmi Fatoye-Matory A ton of thanks to Bunmi Fatoye-Matory and Omowumi Ayodele for their insightful, provocative observations on the Ekitipanupo Internet Forum of January 10, 2022. Like these two compatriots, I too have been both saddened and bewildered by the way our people so characteristically throw science and rationality out of the window in their daily lives as well as their deliberations on matters of grave national importance. In all things domestic […]

Nigeria and the Cow Problem: Another Letter to President Buhari, By Niyi Osundare

February 15, 2021Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Dear President Buhari, This letter, my second to you in five months, will begin with a very, very absurd question: Mr. President, will Nigeria drift into another civil war under your watch simply because the ‘Giant of Africa’ does not know how to manage its cows? Yes, absurd: for, absurdity is the faithful cohort of the grotesque […]

Omoyele Sowore: Nigeria’s Wrong Prisoner, By Niyi Osundare

August 14, 2019Bode DoluLeave a Comment

The 2015 general elections had just ended, with Nigeria’s ‘achievement’ of an unprecedented transition from one civilian government to another. The losers were beginning to lick their wounds, while the gladiators in the winning party were busy strategising for the ways and means of cornering the juiciest portions of the spoils from the just-concluded electoral […]