In the fall of 2017, I started to drive. I finally decided I’d had enough of hopping buses, waiting forever for TTC buses to arrive, jumping across puddles, being eternally hungry because a 5 minute drive home would take 30 minutes by bus. So I went to the Yorkdale Toyota and spoke with a […]
Category: Great People
oga joseph
When I was in Lagos this February, I went to see a movie with my Friend of Many Years. We’d met in camp during NYSC orientation in Nkwerre, Imo state. I believe it was the luxurious sound of my voice and my amazing speech on parade ground that made her fall madly in love with […]
Dumebi my Madam
When I say I’ll do something, I WILL do it eventually after several years of procrastinating. I have promised and promised to eventually write this but every year something stopped me. In 2012, I was one of the anxious young people summoned to the almighty Law school for the experience that would allegedly turn […]
Omalicha
There are those people who you will never recover from. People who are silently so effective that they will creep into every corner of your life and take such a powerful hold that you’d wonder if somebody sent them. People that will show up at the oddest times and sort out some problem in […]
Happy Anniversary
Today makes it 25 years since Miss Deborah Sule became Mrs Ademu-Eteh. Pause, and calmly think of that. How people with different family backgrounds- the son of a village trader and the daughter of a Regimental Sergeant-Major, a Nurse and a Teacher could build such a beautiful life together is something short of a […]
Olanrewaju Gbenga-Martins
Olanrewaju. Gbenga. Martins. That was the first thing everyone noticed about her- all her names were male names. Rather convenient for when she needed to get things done by proxy. Or when she needed to slip in and out of offices unnoticed. That lady was is of the best things to happen to me. I […]
Gerrymandering (or my 24th Birthday Speech)
Thank you everyone. Not everyone could call to wish me happy birthday, and really I don’t mind. Don’t beat yourself up over it. I had some fun, thanks to the Faith Life Assembly Choir. And to Vivian who did some amazing housekeeping and cooking this weekend. And to the people who refused to let me […]
The Catechist
Jerry Ifeanyi Chiemeke I ran into him often but we never “officially” started talking until the last month of law school. Before that, It was the usual comment or two on my blog, and on His when he started blogging. I remember being vaguely impressed with his blogging skills as he said he started the […]
Owanate D. Max-Harry
Finally I’ve dusted my keyboard in 2014. I thought I would end my “great-people-I-know” series in 2013, but with Oyinkan’s birthday, Owanate and Dumebi’s birthdays this month I just cannot skip this. In My Birthday speech of 2012 (Bros over Cutlasses) I talked and talked about how I needed to reduce the amount of […]
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