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It was celebration galore on Sunday, 14th July, 2024, when Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Methodist Church Nigeria, Bodija, Ibadan, celebrated its 40th anniversary in grand style. The weeklong celebration was marked with different activities centered on special prayers and charity works. It kicked off on Monday, July 8, with YWCA members weekly Bible Study. On Wednesday, July 10, there was special prayer for YWCA, the church and Nigeria generally. By Friday, July 12th, medical personnel were on ground to give health talk on care of teeth, after which consultation and treatment were conducted. A good number of food items ranging from rice, yam, noodles e.t.c were distributed to the less privilege at the church promises on Saturday, July 13. The climax of the anniversary celebration, however, was on Sunday, July 14 with Thanksgiving Service at Bodija Methodist Church, and later a colourful reception at Pentonrise Events Centre, Bodija, Ibadan. It was indeed a momentous

There is a wide gap between being rich and being classy. Though not many people seem to know or understand this fact. But in the case of Oba (Dr) Hammed Adekunle Makama Oyelude, Tegbosun 111, the Olowu of Kuta land, he favourably combines the two qualities and even more. Oba Makama has gotten the riches, influence, fame, the steez and class. But upon all he's still very humble. His sense of humor is second to none. In fact, he's a humility personified. He's also a detailed man. Oba Makama pays special attention to details and that has always reflecting in whatever he does. The above mentioned qualities were exactly the scenario that played out when the Osun monarch celebrated his 60th birthday the penultimate Sunday. It was a very classy and grand celebration attended by the movers and shakers of the society. In fact, the ancient town of Kuta was practically shot down with the massive influx of A-list celebrities who came from different parts of the country and beyond to ho

Perhaps the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) didn’t know: Since the days of Paschal Bafyau, Nigerians have had a huge trust deficit for so-called labour activists who sell their people at the drop of a hat. So, when on Thursday last week, officials of the NLC walked to the Aso Rock Villa, singing a mimed “three Gbosas” song like kindergarten children just given a pack of noodles, the people suspected that the ancient alimentary consideration had interfered with a laudable activism. How did the wage construct of N650,000 that the NLC built suddenly collapse to N70,000? If the NLC knew it was heading towards that miserable sum in the face of the daunting existential crises that Nigerian workers face, why shoot up the people’s adrenaline this high? The truth is that the union's sincerity exemplified by the likes of Michael Imoudu, Wahab Goodluck, Hassan Sunmonu and Ali Chiroma is gone forever. Who will take labour seriously any longer? The NLC wasted the time of Nigerians and took the p

Last Wednesday, Nigeria’s upper parliament became a grammar class where semantics, syntax and structure are examined. His Excellency, the Senate President of Nigeria, Godswill Obot Akpabio, suddenly became an emergency interpreter and lexicographer. Akpabio’s interpreter’s dilemma reminds me of Field Marshal Gerald Templer. A senior British Army officer, Templer was best known for the implementation of strategies that heavily contributed to the defeat of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) during the Malayan Emergency of 1949 to 1960. On the instruction of Prime Minister Winston Churchill to temper communist insurgency among the Malays, Templer arrived a Malayan village where some communist guerillas were getting assistance from villagers. In anger, Templer burst out, “You are a lot of bastards!” His interpreter reported this to the people in Malay as, “His Excellency informs you that he knows that none of your mothers and fathers were married when you were born.” Templer, stil