A German lady's love for Naija

A German Lady’s love For Naija

By YINKA FABOWALE, (Just back from Vomperberg, Austria)

  

 

 

I met her just after we disembarked from the Lufthansa airbus that flew us from Lagos to Frankfurt, Germany.

We both had connecting flights to catch- she to Munich, I to Innsbruck. She seemed to know her way around among the crowd of passengers trying to find directions to the next various boarding gates – so, I asked her help, which she willingly gave on learning I was a Nigerian.

Obviously, Cathy Streicher was still delirious about her experience staying in Nigeria. She had been on vacation and spent two weeks in the country – her first trip to Africa as an adult.

Hey, I went gruvving in the Egungun grove again: Does it make me less Christian?

Hey, I went gruvving in the Egungun grove again: Does it make me less Christian?
By YINKA FABOWALE, Ibadan

Oba Sonariwo

Were I a papal Christian I should be before a priest now saying my confessions or having some penance dictated to me.
Or if I were to be of the Pentecostal order I would probably be observing some sentence to days of fasting and prayer decreed by a pastor for my "deliverance" and sanctification for daring to mingle with the circle of "idolaters" and “infidels”.

Agodi Gardens brings Ibadan back to life

Entrance to the resort

From YINKA FABOWALE, Ibadan

  
It is one of the beautiful features of the modern face Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has given the state capital, Ibadan.

From a derelict, weedy, marshy and abandoned grove, old Agodi Botanical Garden has come astir and a much sought-after haunt for fun-seekers, students and the middle class in the sprawling city. Thanks to a general facelift by the Ajimobi administration and a Nigerian firm, AM and Sea Ltd, with interests in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

PERSONALITY: I studied law to free dad- Fatima, Al-Mustapha’s daughter

Fatima 

From YINKA FABOWALE, Ibadan

Shortly after he was slammed behind bars and moved to Kirikiri Prisons, in Lagos, the distraught wife of the dreaded former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, General Sanni Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, visited him, bringing along with her the security chief’s children.

TRAVEL: Austria: A country and its wondrous mountains

Vomperberg, Austria

By YINKA FABOWALE (Who was in Vomperberg, Austria)

The whir of the engine grew into a loud roar, as the huge kite sprang from the tarmac of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport and dared the night sky. It was 10.04 pm on September 3, 2013.

It has been quite a while since I last flew in a plane, and I could not help savouring as I always did, that magical moment, when, despite the dreadful realization that your safety was now in God’s hands, as the wheels of the aircraft lost contact with the more assuring solid earth, you felt gripped by a sensational thrill at being airborne.