That Bank Should Not Have Done That
AND so T4T had a good reason to visit the First Bank, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos branch, Monday, October 27, 2025. T4T used to visit that branch regularly until early this year when his kid who came visiting thought him how to do some things like money transfers, buying stuff using online payments and all.Don’t laugh, this middle aged man is ‘old school’ and he is not ashamed to admit it.
Well, he was welcomed at the bank door by the familiar faces of the security who are always overly eager to please. When the security door opened into the banking hall, the female guard there welcomed T4T with an AI kind of voice: “Welcome to First Bank”. That was cool, T4T admitted inside of him. In the over 20 minutes T4T spent inside the banking hall, he kept hearing that female voice repeating that same thing in that AI-like voice. T4T lost count when she got to 30.

So, wait o, na so dat woman go talk till 5:00pm? If 500 people visit dat branch dat day, she will say “Welcome to First Bank” 500 times? Haba! For how much salary na? Even Lagos bus conductors, na small dem go take do pass dat security guard for calling passengers.
T4T thinks that is not necessary. There used to be an automated voice that welcomes customers to the bank, what happened to it that a human being had to be it’s replacement?

First Bank can do better in that area even though one must confess that its services have improved tremendously.

Dear 9ice, You Can Do Better
DURING the week, T4T was watching a Yoruba movie on Pay TV, titled, Ogo Oluwa. It featured T4T’s ‘crush’ Ronke Odusanya among others. There was this familiar face that T4T was trying to put a name to but it was not coming. He knew he had seen him several times but he now looked different and fairer. Then the nickel dropped, it was no other person than once upon a time hottest Afro pop artiste, Abolore Alapomeji, popularly called 9ice!

What was 9ice doing in a movie? Oh, well, his singing career took a dive some years ago, and it was reported he tried his fingers in politics, the fingers were slightly burnt, so, he took them off and has decided to try his full hands in movie. But then, he has a lot of work to do. He is still very rigid and T4T recalled when fuji music stars, Pasuma, Saheed Osupa, Taye Currency and even Obesere all veered into the Yoruba movie industry. They were all stiff for some time but are now among the top movie stars in that genre. One hopes 9ice will pick up and run with it like he did with his music career until things slowed down.

But the unfortunate part of this story is that, 9ice featured in a very trashy, childish movie that has a predictable storyline from the first scene. It dawned on T4T that 9ice was thrown into the movie because he was 9ice.
Just in case you want to know, Ogo Oluwa was directed by Babatunde Anjola.

Stick To Yoruba Language Only, You Say No!
T4T has been begging all actors in the Yoruba movie genre to stick to the language in their films and try as much as possible to avoid speaking English just to prove that it is a ‘modern’ Yoruba film. But dem gree hear?

There was this movie T4T was watching during the week. Titled The Stalker, it starred Abiodun Jimoh, Anike Ami among others. Oh, before T4T forgets, The Stalker was directed by Uhhi. The flick was going on well, that is if you call that plot that looks like an adapted American action movie, going well. And so, the bad guy pimp was threatening one of his girls and this was what T4T heard: “Have you forgotten the ‘hethics’ of the job?” What was that? ‘Hethics’? Is that an English word? T4T was trying to figure out the meaning of what the actor said until it came across that he meant to say ETHICS but obviously, he has this mother tongue interference thing, and that was why he pronounced it ‘hethics’.

Oh well, most of us have this thing, but then, coming from an actor is embarrassing. For instance, a typical Urhobo person pronounces Lagos as ‘Nagos’, London is ‘Nondon’; and don’t forget that T4T is Urhobo, this is before you accuse him of having something against the Yorubas, make you sha no.

Now, this is once again appealing to Yoruba actors to please in the name of Orumila or Sango and anything they serve, stick to Yoruba language in films only, that is why it is called a Yoruba movie.

And don’t forget the HETHICS of the job, that is very important, too.That Bank Should Not Have Done That