ABC: Please introduce yourself to the court, sir XYZ: My name is Dr. Kogberegbe Smart. I am a professional coroner. ABC: As a coroner, do you perform autopsies? XYZ: (Visibly irritated) Well, in “dull-man” language, as a coroner, I open up dead bodies to determine the cause and time of their death. Is that simple […]
BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS
(Below is a short speech originally delivered on January 27, 2018, and it qualified me for the finals of an oratory contest. I hope it touches something in you.) It was November 2015, a depressing period for me because I was at the Intensive Care Unit, University College Hospital, Ibadan — visiting, visiting… My beloved […]
COMPLETE VERSION: OMOYA’S 7 LESSONS FROM MR. 2017
So, I started this series on WhatsApp and Instagram, sharing with others valuable lessons 2017 had taught me. It was an interesting one, with quite a number of people wholeheartedly following the daily posts. It lasted for a week, one lesson per day. I have decided to compile the seven in this blog post for […]
TO FELLOW NIGERIAN YOUTHS: ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
Sometime in early June, I woke up to see an alarming number of notifications on my smartphone. It seemed as though all social networks to which I belonged had been seized with a sudden fever. It would take me 45 minutes of painstakingly following threads on Twitter and checking news websites to get a full […]
THE PROMISED LAND AND 2017 UI MB PART 1 EXAM: WHAT IT MEANS TO SMELL FAILURE
On June 23, 2016, I had a close shave. About 7.30PM, I was on a bus traversing Lagos-Ibadan expressway when we were attacked by armed robbers. They were four in number, faces concealed with black masks, each of them carrying long guns whose description you wouldn’t expect me to know because it turned out the […]
INTROSPECTIONS (S.Y–707–01)
It is not often that one speaks of one’s labours, and unless one’s labours have yielded some definite product, there are rarely listening ears to catch one’s story. It is as though one’s tale, for the sole reason that it appears to be stuck in limbo, is presumed to lack significance, and is therefore given […]
THE CONCEPT OF OMOWANISM IN THE AFFAIRS OF MAN
by Omoya Yinka Simult (This article was first published on page 38 of Leadership newspaper on June 8, 2017. An online version was also later published on TheCable on June 10, 2017) “One day, we arrested a Cabinet Minister for engaging in corruption. On the day he was arrested, Members of Parliament from his ethnic group came […]
NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECESSION AND INSECURITY: SAVING EDUCATION TO SAVE NIGERIA
by Omoya Yinka Simult (The long essay you’re about to read won me Sigma Tertiary Essay Competition II in Nigeria on May 3, 2017. Happy reading!) INTRODUCTION It is hard to be a Nigerian at the moment. On July 21, 2016, while appearing before the Senate, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, declared for […]
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