Uncle Nearest

Credit to Rufai Oseni here. He asked the question, when the candidate went round about not asking the question, he doubled down and it couldn’t be clear this person has zero clue. Anyone who cannot answer the ‘how’ to whatever they say they are going to do is either lying or simply deluded about how things work. None is a desirable option.

Rufai: I can criticize President Tinubu but then commend him for taking our foreign reserves to $50 billion and about 1.5 million students are getting student loans. Obi: No No No No, All that does not matter. If I am there things will change.

Dangote Refinery has reduced its petrol gantry price to N1,175 per litre.

Beckham, everyday.

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There are now actually lecturers in Obafemi Awolowo university who have lived all of their lives, from birth till now, within that campus community. From birth to school to adulthood to graduation and teaching careers have been withing the confines of that university town.

Bro Nigieria no be real place, this guy legit sew Sutana for his dog, come still carry her go church 😭😂

The Stubbornness of Birds There is something almost admirable about the stubborness of birds, in their breeding season. I live in the rural outskirts of Ibadan, so birds are common here. Two species in particular are almost always around my house: the common kingfisher and the bronze mannikin. The mannikins have been breeding in my house for about three years now. They have somehow chosen my house as their community meat as they make nests in three different locations around my roof. One of those sites sits dangerously close to my electric wiring, and I was not about to let a bird's real estate preferences burn my house down. So I started destroying the nest at that particular spot whenever they built it, while leaving the other two untouched. I thought this was a reasonable arrangement. Generous, even. They disagreed. They kept rebuilding at the same spot, with the same confidence, as if I had not just dismantled their work the day before. I want to sit them down. Call a proper meeting. Put it to them plainly: I have given you two out of three sites. That is a 67% concession. In what negotiation is that not a win? What exactly are your objections? But birds do not negotiate. They just build. And build. And build again.

I once killed a giant African rat in the afternoon one time like that as a kid. Those rats are usually slow during the day, reduced sight during the day. So I killed it, we later found out the rat was nursing offsprings. To cap the matter, I didn’t even know how to prepare a bush meat, so it wasted and was just vseless death. Those nosy neighbors reported me at night when dad came that I had killed a rat and didn’t eat it. I can testify that the beating I received that day was the worst way my dad ever beat me. He sent me out the house and uttered a statement. “If someone killed your mother, would you be fine”in Yoruba. The following day, I went to check on the small rats, I found them dead. 🥹 Love for animals sparked in me that very day and made it my choice if I don’t play football, it would be Agric, look at me I later found myself as a veterinary doctor. All I’m using to cap it is protect the wildlife, don’t kill games you won’t eat.

This my uncle’s death is still paining me. Even though he has lived well enough, still wouldn’t mind having him around for a while. He’s so real. Very successful from a young age, he’d sit with you and tell you where he made mistakes. He also trained some of the most successful of us - Gbite and Leye Falade. At his peak he said he bought 3 cars in a day, he admitted he didn’t need them, it was just exuberance. Told me how too many women will complicate your life. Still spoke to him last month with my wife. Fly high Chief Asalu Oyedokun Solomon - Head (Falade-Asalu compound, Ejigbo, Osun state.)