What on earth could encourage two Yoruba speaking friends, colleagues, associates and classmates converse in English language in social interaction? This cultural contradiction debilitates me. It exceeds the limit of contemptuous shame. It is a sad, pompous affair that merely puffs up the ego of the speakers but more damagingly destroyed our Yoruba heritage…

Nigeria is in the throes of a grave and quickly worsening violence. The resources of the state ought to be husbanded to confront this burgeoning virulent threat. But instead of going after those who ambush innocents with bombs, guns and machetes, the SSS diverts itself with intimidating principled commentators on national affairs…

We are indeed in deep trouble. This is because we have a penchant for learning and perfecting all the negative trends that we come across. Be it armed robbery, fraud, corruption, ritual killing, Pentecostalism, religion, forgery, kidnapping, act of deception and lying…

‘Ponbele’, to those who are yet to catch the radical fire, is the art of speaking your native-born language without dilution of English language. Simply put: speak Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, Edo, Igala and Efik in such a simplistically raw mode as to create cultural utopia that shames the old imposition of English language…