Buying a Coffin for Nigeria’s education: #400 Recharge Card per Course by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi [OPEN]
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Nigerian academia: Crooked walk through wilderness by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
It is no longer news that the Nigerian educational system is in doldrums. What may be an update is that many of the academics, especially tertiary, are in denial. They do not want to admit that there are fundamental crises bedevilling the institutions they occupy and systems they are meant to administer.
While succeeding public governments, at all levels, have apparently been determined to kill public education, through humiliation, harassment, hunger, nay, starvation, disorientation and ultimately self-annihilation through inter-union implosions, the academics have continued to contribute, in no small way, to fast-track the process. They have assumed either the complacent approach or become catalysts. The former via adopting the maxim – ‘if heavens must fall, everyone must be a partaker of the resulting calamity’, and therefore gone to sleep or the latter, whereby they actively participate in the horrification that has overwhelmed the READ MORE
LEGEND OF EL-NUKAL by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
With a million smiles from the heart and many moreI bring you evergreen tales from forever land
With arms wide opened, stretching into the core
I brought stories of adventures from the wild
Between Scylla and Charybdis
When the muscles are flaccid and weary
And men draw wrought rivalry
Continue reading LEGEND OF EL-NUKAL by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
Prayer and Ori in the Ifa Tradition | Farinade Olokun
Ori is translated as the head, or higher self. Each person is born with an ori that guides them, much like a bird that instinctively knows migratory routes
Source: Prayer and Ori in the Ifa Tradition | Farinade Olokun
LABINNAH’S LEGEND by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
With blood,
I scribble in earth
Your name!
With a trail of your strides
Non-conformist, yet benevolent Continue reading LABINNAH’S LEGEND by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
Purpose of life
In my continuing search…
I have found
THAT LIKE PLANTS GROWING ON THE LANDSCAPE AMONGST OTHERS,
IT’S OUR PURPOSE TO BE ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CREATION PROCESS.
DEPARTURE by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
Before words become raining bullets
Showering on the leaky roofs of the Delta
And preaching become blood
Coursing through the veins of the Rivers
Before the Bible and the Quran
Become Trump’s wall Continue reading DEPARTURE by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
ebo ni Brazil with full Chicken
This morning, while I trekked to School, I stumbled on this cynosure. Not that it was strange, but merely unexpected. A well packaged ‘ebo’ for the gods positioned at ‘orita meta’.
Got me thinking how well Brazilians have caught on the details of a custom considered quite remote. While people jettison their customs or culture Continue reading ebo ni Brazil with full Chicken
Opinion: Between EFCC and Former OAU Acting VC – When corruption becomes the bull » YNaija
by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi Following the arraignment of the most recent former Acting Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof Anthon
Source: Opinion: Between EFCC and Former OAU Acting VC – When corruption becomes the bull » YNaija
THE BOND II by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
When the sky breaks into pockets of inflamed cloudAnd rumble like the bowel of an insatiable glutton
Restless tongues relate lucid tales of distant lands
Where dreams float aimlessly
To be planted and harvested at leisure
Continue reading THE BOND II by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
Letter from the son of man: Why PDP needs to stop playing victim » YNaija
by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi Dear Hannibal, I received your letter from the dead football fans. And from their body language, if they have the means notwithstand
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Letter to the son of man: Nigerian politicians and their comedy shows » YNaija
by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal Dear Son of Man, The will to do what is right in the face of medley temptations, mostly from peers, can actuall
Source: Letter to the son of man: Nigerian politicians and their comedy shows » YNaija
Ite Oluwa kiisi
It is the story of OlodumareThe faithful custodian of fate, in all shades a stamp
Unchangeable; otherwise, at will
The Lord of the secrets of galaxies
That’s what you’re called, Ol’odu imare
If it were pure white,
Like it was of no colour
LETTER FROM THE SON OF MAN vol. 6 by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
Dear Hannibal,
It is sad that you should be exposed to ludicrous acts and outbursts of people, who having forgotten that “nemo dat quod non habet” (no one gives what he doesn’t have), launch their assaults upon unsuspecting citizens, themselves ignorant of the havoc they wreak on their constituencies and the nation by implementing, as leaders, policies and intervening, at times of usually unexpected crises, out of an overwhelming ignorance that they have gotten used to wearing like a crown. Meningitis and God? That is more reasonable than when leaders elected to pragmatically solve national problems turn around to tell their electorates that recession is the wages of sin. Or, wait for it, that the lack of funds in government coffers is an experience of God’s wrath on the people. One thing is certain and that is they have not forgotten that the disappeared funds are in their personal possession. But at least, they have succeeded in creating a god of their chosen or convenient acts for their god that they believe will serve as sellable excuse for perpetuating their atrocities. Can one still say, “God is watching?” Continue reading LETTER FROM THE SON OF MAN vol. 6 by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
LETTER TO THE SON OF MAN Vol.6 by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
Dear Son of Man,
Just as we are trying to extricate our feet from the bog of bohemian that epitomises our national lives, some irascible juveniles in garbs of senility are trying to sink our feet deeper into the marshes of ignominy. What we witness here daily is enough to infuriate rational minds into irrational acts that may encapsulate and consume our sovereignty. Daily, our leaders, filled with hubris and self-demanding in their egocentric cocoons, serve illogic diets as menu for the palate of the famished public and leave them drooling in diarrheic spurts. Continue reading LETTER TO THE SON OF MAN Vol.6 by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
LETTER FROM THE SON OF MAN vol. 5 by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
Dear Hannibal,
Permit me to quote one of your concluding remarks, “Like a twin emotion of burying a brother very close to heart and welcoming a newborn son into this world at the same time, Nigerians remain in the precarious oscillation of looking forward to a brighter future and looking into the dire present that promises no golden future.” As much agreement that I may have with that perception, it should be clearly noted that it cannot be all sad tales with Nigeria; not in the past gory days of military headship, the Jonathan days of Sodom and definitely not now. However, the message is quite obvious and succinctly delivered in that statement. The paradoxes of life’s dynamism! Continue reading LETTER FROM THE SON OF MAN vol. 5 by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
LETTER TO THE SON OF MAN Vol.5 by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
Dear Son of Man,
How best can I express my disappointment in our dispositions as a nation than this little space afforded me to ventilate on issues beyond my power to alter? It is true, what you said in your last letter, that we take one minion step forward and two giant ones backwards. Your allegory about the driver and his passengers was on point with prejudice to the Nigerian state and its unpalatable leadership cum followership trail. If the passengers see nothing wrong in the reckless drive of their driver, I am afraid there is little or nothing to be done to avert a doomed journey. How much of our negligence and complacency are responsible for the wantonness of our leaders? How much of our indulgence renders leaders unaccountable? And just how much of our sycophancy Continue reading LETTER TO THE SON OF MAN Vol.5 by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
LABINNAH’S LEGEND by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
This long and crooked path,
Life’s labyrinth,
Stretching out the petals of intrigues
cocooning Minotaur, son of Pasiphaë,
is to Labinnah just a thorny road to glory.
Are you Theseus, Labinnah,
That strong and mighty soldier? Continue reading LABINNAH’S LEGEND by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
LETTER FROM THE SON OF MAN vol. 4 by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
Dear Hannibal,
“Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.” – William Hague.
While the statement above is true, so much needs be done by the people of Nigeria, Continue reading LETTER FROM THE SON OF MAN vol. 4 by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi
LETTER TO THE SON OF MAN Vol.4 by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
Dear, Son of Man.
I am excited as ever to get your timely correspondence. It was a timely balm that soothes the strained joints of our daily struggles. More so, it was an insight into a higher mind that proffers pragmatic panacea to our constant societal problems from a distant world, while opening a vista for dialectical discourse on our continued existence as humans and as citizens of a highly soldiered sovereign alliance.
Continue reading LETTER TO THE SON OF MAN Vol.4 by Adeojo Kolawole Adeyemi Hannibal
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