“Even at ninety, the man had to crawl with the cockroaches in the darkest of niches to grab a crumb from the filthy pie Tinubu was dangling before him.” _________________________ Good morning, sir, but screw you! My God, Wole, you are ninety, maybe senile, out of fashion, staled, and probably used up to utter those almost sacrilegious, according to Okey Ndibe, cologne-sprayed, amala and akara amalgam crap still looking for a way out from your...

“For a musician who copies from those before him, who lacks originality, and suffers greatly in the same poetic, lyrical language where the likes of Flavor, Wiz Kid, and Davido bathe, should just Sharrup and play.” _________________________ A guy rolls with measured mediocrity all his life suddenly wakes up one morning from a sharp needle-like pain up his butt cheek. It is the same hyper-sensitive dose of rocket-type fuel Lucifer pumped into his veins to...

And we believe in all of them…except the last one on this list. The one I figured out. _________________________ I will be called out, castigated, roped, and dragged through a stony terrain to be thrown off a ten-thousand cliff, that is if you read on and arrived at the very last haymaker of the controversy of all controversies. First, here is the list of all the major arguments humans have swallowed hook, line, and sinker....

“Nigeria is sleek and thin, and such nations are dangerous.” _________________________ I told you guys before…a dozen times, I think, that the day of Africa’s most populous Nation to die was imminent, that is, if she hadn’t died. I’d say, I told you this over dinner, over a game of who tells the best, salty jokes, and on that day we all heard the news declaring that men had been cleared to marry men. We...

“Take a look at those we have put in Aso Rock in the last forty years. Dimwitted dumbasses. Dark-soul-ed oddballs. Grifters. Thieves, the kinds that turn over the treasury bag, shake it loose just for the pennies to drop. They left us with an empty bag” _________________________ Why do you people weep? Have you not cried enough? Why do you citizens of the nation of Nigeria not wake up and walk away from the nightmare?...

I should have gone to Mass and stayed there until Benediction time. However, I did not. I stayed home instead, wallowing in that pit of absolute disdain, why humanity could not come together and live and let live. Then, it dawned on me that idyllic famous last words, Love thy Neighbor as thyself, as The Father Himself had proposed, was a sham God, The Father, knew that this His particular Wish would not fly. He...

“You can gallivant all you want with junk premises, and all of them will lead you back to the money bags in this man’s head.” Peter Cheyney, the British maestro, the one before this other British maestro, James Hadley Chase, was in the game as Britain’s most shrewd detective novelist, the second his first, the most daring book, ‘This Man Is Dangerous; Go Get Him, Boys’ hit the shelves. If I am lying, I am...