Alagba Barny this Sunday: One More Post on Biodun Fatoyinbo and Busola Dakolo That You Need To Read

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! How did the past week turn out? Yes, this post is about something that happened in the past week. Grab a seat and get ready to have a good time. In case you have not heard, beginning from this past week, social media has been agog with the news and...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: Thoughts from Netflix’s Designated Survivor

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! I hope you had a beautiful week. I recently saw the last episode of the just-concluded season 3 of the American TV series, Designated Survivor. If you have not seen that series, you seriously need to go see it. I mean go and see it now, because I might be...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: Forbidden

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! Happy Fathers' Day to all our fathers and father-figures all over the world! This Sunday, I really just want to reflect on the love of our heavenly Father has shown to us through Jesus Christ, his first begotten Son. For this cause, I have written a short poem of gratitude....

Alagba Barny this Sunday: #IfItWereYou 02

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday to you! I hope the past week went well. It's another Sunday of #IfItWereYou when you, my darling readers get to to be the Alagbas (wise ones) and give your intelligent opinions (in the comment section) on various issues of life and the experiences of other people. Last month, we...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: Who Is Your Teacher?

Hello there, dear! Happy First Sunday in June! I hope May was fun and that you did most (if not all) of the things you set out to achieve in it. To my very kind Muslim followers, I celebrate the end of Ramadan with you. I pray that we begin to see the effects of...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: On Flogging Children

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! How did the past week go? It's Children's Sunday today and it will be Children's Day tomorrow, May 27, so I just thought to discuss children. Generally, a child is a person that is not an adult. The universal minimum adult age is 18 years. Therefore, a child is a...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: Bury Your Head

Father said to me, "Come hither, son of his father; draw not farther. Take heed to the words of my heart if you must shut the ears of your nose to The words of my smelly mouth For in my words, you will find a parcel of wisdom, In my utterances, you will excavate understanding,...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: #IfItWereYou 01

And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. (Luke 19:8) Happy Sunday to you, dear! You're highly welcome to the very first run of #IfItWereYou on Alagba...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: How I Have Been Consistent With Writing/Blogging

Hello there, dear! Happy First Sunday in May! This Sunday, I will be letting you in on what has kept me going as a writer/blogger. You excited?! I was speaking recently to a friend who was fascinated and asked about my consistency in writing. She was referring especially to my weekly blog posts. I told...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: You Probably Need A Friend Or Two

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! I hope your week was blessed. Some people believe that friends are like flowers. The same way flowers live and blossom for a while before they wither, so also friends surround us for a while before they leave or they literally die. These people think that the same people don't...

Interview with the Winner, NLIPW’s 2019 National Campus Essay Competition

I had the privilege of interviewing the grand-prize winner of the 2019 National Campus Essay Competition organized by the National Law Intellectual Property Watch (NLIPW), Charles Tekena Banigo, a graduating student of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, Ibadan. The essay competition, organized this year for applicants to propose solutions to the myrid of...

Winners of the 2019 Dapo Olorunyomi National Essay Competition

The Dapo Olorunyomi National Essay Competition, hosted by the Association of Communication and Language Arts Students, University of Ibadan, held for the second time this year after a very successful maiden edition in 2017 that saw one of University of Ibadan's finest writers at the time, Adekunle Adebajo clinching the overall grand prize. This year,...

Goodness Adedigba emerges winner of the 2019 Cicero Oratory Competition

As part of its activities for the 59th Annual Health Week, the University of Ibadan Medical Students' Association (UIMSA) organized an oratory contest tagged the Cicero Oratory Competition with the theme, Preventive Medicine in Nigeria: A True Solution or A Mere Distraction.The competition held in two rounds: the preliminaries and the finals. The preliminary round...

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Hey! Don't cry; it's okay. Wipe your tears, I say Because today, You will, before God, all your burdens lay. Hey! Do not, to disparagement, attention pay. You're not worthless, nay! Give no ear to what naysayers say. Leave them to the gallery to play. So everyday When you wake, Praise, pray. Dance, if you...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: How March Marched

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! How did your week go? This Sunday, I'd be reviewing how March went for me. As today ends the month of March, here are a few things that I found notable about it: 1. I added another year: I am a very young person who has only just begun to...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: What You Need To Make A Home Of

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! This Sunday, you'll be doing some imagining. Follow me. Name 7 of your all-time favourite movies. Do the same for your all-time favourite books. Now, ask yourself why exactly those movies and books are top of their respective lists. Ask yourself what the books and what the movies all have...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: The World Is Waiting For You

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! I hope you had a nice weekend. Some time ago, I read something on a friend's blog that provoked thoughts in me. Today's post is the product of that thought journey. Now, this is not another mere motivational talk. A friend blogged about something pretty personal. Her mother was not...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: Celebrating The Human Blessing That Jamie Grace is

Hello there! Happy Sunday!😃 (If this is your first time on this blog, you are highly welcome. You are very important to me and I hope not to ever waste your time. Please, come here often!😁) You probably know more about US-based gospel music sensation Jamie Grace than I do and that's okay. Something I...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: Should respect be earned?

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! (March 1st was my birthday. I am immensely grateful to everyone that showed me kindness on the day. May the Lord bless you in every way.) I do not believe that respect should be earned. If every single person has to earn my respect before I give it, then it...

Alagba Barny this Sunday: Life can be so complicated

Hello there, dear! Happy Sunday! (For Nigerians: How many other things were cancelled in your life this past week? Accept my profound apologies jare. God is in control.) There is this Yoruba proverb that talks about the dilemma of a certain royal messenger who was sent on an errand by his master, the king, whose...