Nigeria, June 27 -- (Being a short comment on the 2025 National Honours List)

"The hunger march is a universal S.O.S." - Wole Soyinka, PREMIUM TIMES, 4 August, 2024

"While you are there demonstrating, we will be here eating." - Godswill Obot Akpanio, Senate president, 31 July, 2024

"That distribution undo excess and each man have enough." - William Shakespeare, King Lear

Egeremiti is a term, a figure of speech in Yoruba rhetoric for any experience, act or utterance that is so wondrous - in a good or evil sense - that it is close to being an epiphany. As I read the names of so many living and departed comrades, friends and colleagues on the 2025 National Honours list, I was so moved that a thrill ran down my spine as I muttered, "egere...