Ruyi's World of Books & Stories

This is a land of lands where dreams are planted in the longing eyes of a child. Lives are redefined for societal upliftment, children build castles on the seashore and watch the passage of tradition and culture from the custodians to the younger ones. We speak of those tales under the moonlight, grace the festivities hopping in around villages. Boys stay uphills to tell girls tale of prestige, Girls gather in the stream to sing and dance. When boys come,  they run here and there madly to cover their innocent nakedness  We watch the elders chew kola nuts under the setting of the old rugged sun. Children remember the farmland like their palm, the dreadful thunder,  they chase with a curse. Hopeful land AFRICA is a land of expression. We sweep clean our hearts with love. Our skin colours are our proud name, no full flame,  next fall, next rise joyfully, With love and n...

What Timi Dakolo said... “We as Christians give our tithes to God. Whether pastor chop or not na him go answer to God.” “A canal mind cannot understand the things of the spirit.” “You don’t have any right to talk about marriage when you are a divorcee (or unmarried)” “You need patience and understanding and high level of communication to stay married.” "This generation is impatient." And the worst of the bunch goes thus… “All men love curves and boobs and a beautiful face, but we would forever respect a complete and intelligent woman.” Yet all of you – obtuse and brain-dead are clamoring to place a crown on his head.  What do you find in this tedious, colorless spittle that makes it any less redundant as the yarn of an average Nigerian? This is what your great grandfathers said. It is what your grandmothers told your mother. It is what your mother is spitting all over your face for the last 30 years, so much that you can’t think of ...

Abdulrasheed Maina The family members of former Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration begged the former pension boss to join the change agenda, with the assurance of security protection. The family members of former Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration begged the former pension boss to join the change agenda, with the assurance of security protection. The family disclosed this during a press conference in Kaduna on Wednesday.  They added that their son is not a fraudster but a messiah who brought reforms into the pension scheme. The spokesman of the family, Aliyu Maina said based on his “sterling record” at the scheme, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari appealed to Maina to key into the “change agenda”. Aliyu wondered why government officials were ...

Shortly after a conversation between two of my favorite proteges,  Mitterand Okorie  and  Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu gave me the inflatus for an essay on Julius Berger, a perplexed Nigerian phoned me. Although the terrible condition of Nigeria's infrastructure is a given, he says, his governor has really been trying with road construction. He has always given his Governor an A+ for road construction. "In fact, Prof, if you see some of the roads he completed and launched last year, na like jand". I told him to send me pictures of some of the "ultramodern roads" that his Governor completed and launched last year. He obliged me the following day. He also sent me photos of the ribbon cutting - a whole day of suspended governance and grounding the state to launch His Excellency's new project. I told my interlocutor to watch this space for my response at a time of my own determination for what I was moved to say to him was also good for public illu...

Babachir. Ikoyi Dollars. Baru/Kachikwu saga. Kyari MTN sleaze. Paris fund bailout theft. Illegal Recruitments. Ekiti-Fayemi N13b saga. Timipreye Sylva. Amaechi/Rivers/APC Campaign slush fund. Maina. The list is calendar-long. "Buhari is fighting corruption from the front". Yes, he is, dear Buharists! Have you taken your medication today? Try another sanatorium, perhaps a better-equipped psychiatrist can help you out of this illusion: "Buhari is fighting corruption". Take Neurontin.  Don't forget to swallow one tablet daily (after a meal). It is an antipsychotic. It will help your condition, dear Buharists. Lawyer, Columnist, Poet, Contrarian & the Oracle. Educated at Jos, Nigeria; Durham & Reading, England.

carving their names on the world’s flesh like scars, they won’t waste their breath on the news of dead men. if there are things humans should learn, it is how to leave their emotions out of the equations uncourtly, Keep an eye on their flank, naturally and neutrally. under a worried sky, the wind striped, blood shattered, not in this rat hole shall children learn to sip passage of rotten loyalty from their fathers. through sun and through shadows, we’ll walk by the side of the sun. the sky, the earth’s fate is bound till eternity, If that up goes down, the other is a reminiscence of forgetfulness which is seen in the heart of women. we can heal each other, we can reclaim perpetuity, a fable told from the book of Azra, trust issues but not in the cuddled care of mother fate whose template Of love swells and faints at the sight of an oblong face. let’s man this forest of people that beloved hatred, let this castle of cruelty home you after the nigh...

World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, in a news conference on October 12, reported President Muhammadu Buhari as having said the World Bank should “shift our focus to the northern regions of Nigeria.” Several commentators, particularly from the South, said the revelation provided evidence of the president’s prejudicial northern sub-nationalism. The president’s defenders, on the other hand, said he actually meant the “northeast.”  Rather strangely, both the president’s critics and his defenders are right. Here is what I mean. According to the transcript of the conference on the World Bank’s website, the question that elicited Kim’s response was, “what is the World Bank doing to support those ravaged in the northeastern part of Nigeria by the Boko Haram terrorists?” In other words, the questioner specifically wanted to know what the World Bank was doing about northeastern Nigeria in light of the devastation that has been wrought upon the region by years of Boko Haram insurgency. ...