Omoya Yinka Simult

(As a birthday celebrant, I wrote a note to my family and friends. It also happens to be the 100th post that would be published on this website. Cheers to another milestone!) Friends and family, in the days leading up to this year’s June 12, I revisited “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius. I did this to […]

In commemoration of her 60th year anniversary (1960 – 2020), University of Ibadan Medical Students’ Association (UIMSA) recently had interviews with 10 of its outstanding members who are making exploits in various fields of interest outside Medicine. This series of interviews was tagged “UIMSA DREAM OUTSIDE THE BOX” (UDOB). Its aim was to encourage medical […]

Two months before I’d make another attempt, I had read some article and my comprehension of it had been poor. I’d felt as though the writer was speaking way over my head. It had all seemed so complicated, with economic jargon and foreign government policies strewn all over it. But I read the same article […]

(Caveat: Please engage your sense of humour in reading this article. Sentences may have deeper meanings than what can be readily gleaned on the surface. Or maybe not.) “If you no get money, hide your face,” sang Davido, a billionaire’s son and top musician. In Nigeria, you cannot be addressed as a respectable human being […]

I remember when, as a teenager, I made my dad buy me a newspaper every week. It started when I was in senior secondary school, during one of those sessional breaks. As soon as the idea occurred to me, having successfully convinced him that I needed it, my father and I went out to get […]