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"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone." ~John Steinbeck Our napkin is still soaked in tears because our mind is grieved. Our hearts were tatteredly shot with the pain of death, the agony of the pain, and circumstances of negligence surrounding it.  On the evening of a Thursday, 22nd of April, the demise of Asefon Nifemi Bernard became evident. Sources explained that he had earlier fell into a latrine pit after switching electricity where he spent about 25minutes (another source claimed 45minutes) before being rescued. Sources expatiated that upon bringing him to the LTH, Ogbomoso, the medical practitioner claimed they couldn't attend to him unless the DSA presence is registered. 15minutes afterward was the DSA arrival on which the source claimed heard reporting the unavailability of oxygen gas. This unavailability of oxygen gas was not admitted by the hospital resident doctors, according to tweet. It was s

It's a time to be sincere,  and also to be frank. What do we have to celebrate about Nigeria? A man begotten already, would not be found in the womb again. Not after the delivery day,  not 60years after.  Poor me! I grew up to the cliche about East or West, that home is the best. Nurtured with a passion o believe that Nigeria not a country, it's a nation. Rather, it's the blood in my vein. Nigeria, it's a spirit that bind us to brothers, and to our ancestors whose history has written heroes for them. Nigeria, it's the epithet that define our affiliation with good and great people of this black nation, the good character of it, the bad and her propaganda. Our soil and oil, that we sing praises now and then. Our hearts and our acts, that we layed in the golden glass. Used or not, we've kept this for 60 year. The traditional me grew up to say Happy whenever we remember the boring tales of our enslaved independence. Hurray to fellow Nigerians in dependen

Second Home, Second Fiddle - The Iwo Case Every students of political history across the shores of Iwoland will easily recognize the inglorious locution of 'Our Second Home', its history, its implications and its meaning - both contextual and inferential. For the benefit of inquiring minds, It is a phrasal lip-service whose inception is dated back in the 70s. A lip-service paid on Iwo citizenry to acquire their thumbs anytime election is held. Political actors, having realised the importance of the teeming population of voters Iwo has, and having studied the mindset of the people, came up with the grand deceit. This was expressly used to the detriment of Iwo as a town. As a governorship contestant in the defunct Oyo state, Uncle Bola Ige, of blessed memory, used it to garner votes from Iwoland. Chief Bisi Akande and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola did same, promising the Iwo community heaven on earth, as their second home. The rest they say, is history as none of these promises was ever