Soludo’s speech at his inauguration should benefit from rigorous debate. But the man’s speech, promises, and barely hidden fears were hijacked by two women behaving badly in public. Thank God for technology. I finally got the chance to read the whole thing and have a few thoughts. We can’t forget…

Twitter has been awash with sordid tales of awful treatment by Nigerian employers. Not a lot of it is new. Anyone paying attention knows that to receive salaries from a Nigerian company or establishment is to put yourself at the mercies of their wickedest whims. If your boss is feeling…

Please subscribe to my newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/2dd54326e9f8/oris-newsletter A few weeks ago I was talking to a filmmaker friend in Burkina Faso about the danger of being too early to some fields. You come too early but the market isn’t ready for you. Or what you need to succeed is still in its rudimentary stages and so doesn’t…

Wizkid gives the blandest interviews. Like fried eggs without salt. No real worldview, no substance, no pepper, no humour. Not even a slang. I just read his Rolling Stone interview and it’s clear that after Burna Boy’s win, his team is trying to position him for a Grammy. …

Note: This morning saw the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics. I read the citation from the Swedes and it elicited this rant on Facebook, which I now share here. Back when we had no idea we were playing a game that would lead us directly to the current…

There are those for whom the R. Kelly trial and verdict do not present any sort of dilemma. As a big fan of the man’s records from the early 1990s to his Chocolate Factory album, I am not one of those persons. Please subscribe to my newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/2dd54326e9f8/oris-newsletter I admit that reading that he had been…

These days, the biggest musicians do not need political money; 100 million streams across the foreign streaming platforms is enough income. There is also the side gig of performances at corporate events or at personal parties. These guys would hardly record a song endorsing a candidate. But that’s just the…

Please subscribe to my newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/2dd54326e9f8/oris-newsletter I did the rather easy math hours ago and realised I had jumped into a bus to attend Toni Kan’s birthday celebration a decade ago. Man, see me see old age. I had first met the man in the pages of Hints magazine, which is now one of those things…

Please subscribe to my newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/2dd54326e9f8/oris-newsletter The Beginning It seems about right to say that Burna Boy has written his name permanently in Nigeria’s history books. As Seun Kuti told us days back, Burna is one of only 4 Nigerians that have gotten the Grammy nod for their own work. …