the bias against women; when men are treated as puppets and women as serpents puppet that goes freely with its flaws and serpent we take axes after for a chaw the bias against women; when he announces a new job and he’s felicitated amid fanfare & calls but when she announces a new duty she must have slept her way to the new office the bias against women; when he flaunts his new keys and we bath him in spits of unending wishes but when she flaunts her new ride her sugardaddy must have enjoyed some crazy styles…
Author: Hashim Yussuf Amao
The sextortion news about Tiwa Savage sent sympathy down the spine. If anyone should get blackmailed for their leaked nudes, it shouldn’t be Tiwa – a Queen who had severally used her talent and platform to speak against ills in the society. The #wearetired hashtag she initiated in the spring of 2020 strongly vent frustration at the rape and sextortion ladies face on daily. Only Jamil’s Mother would go on to liase with the Lagos State Police Commissioner to roll out numbers rape and sextortion victims could call in times of distress. Who would further offer legal aid to rape…
While Nigerians dip in soggy soil, they douse in the pool of tears their country exude in them. The aged eyes that had wept tiringly for 61 years, spunky eyes that vomits salty water out of hardship, “mint-fresh” ones that oozes tears anew and may for long – “tufiakwa”. The tears that hunger provokes. The blood that insecurity sheds. The sweat that unmerited labour bittered. The hues and cries from orifices of the country. For 61years, it has been like this; that it won’t remain forever, remains a prayer on every patriots’ lips. The October 1, 1960 initiation into Commonwealth…
