Osita Okoroafor

A lawyer with a firm in Lagos, has an unpublished collection of 90 poems titled Graveside Chronicles. He is also exploring writing plays. In his words, poetry "is a thread of nostalgia woven by the needle of life's experiences into a mosaic of enchanting dreams, pains - and sometimes nightmares".

Amina Lawal Freed: Whose Justice, Whose Victory?

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court verdict to free Amina Lawal, the chest thumping began and personalities and groups claimed her acquittal was a victory for themselves and their ideology. But does anyone care about what Amina Lawal had to say about her acquittal?

A Red Carpet For A Bloodied Warrior

Charles Taylor had nowhere to go except Nigeria, where criminals go unpunished; where the wronged get no justice. I believe his place should not be in the safe ensconce of a villa on Diamond hill, overlooking the scenic beauty of Calabar. No! He should be elsewhere, preferably in the dock before the International War Crimes Tribunal...

Ogbanje Child And Abiku Militants

Each time we fall victim to 4.1.9., we forget our part in the crime…

A Path Choked With Weeds

The average Nigerian lusts for easy wealth and society no longer questions the source of such wealth, rather flaunting such ill gotten wealth is the eulogized in glossy magazines...

Preying Birds Of Passage

Dreams? What is the price of dreams in my Nigeria your Nigeria? Dreams can only buy frustration, despondency, despair, and disappointments...

Get Rich Or Die Trying

Poverty and a crippled economy have forced hundreds of thousands of children out of Nigerian schools into the streets to fend for themselves and their families...

April Fools (11): Attack Of The Clones

I remember the rains. I remember the cold as I stood in the rain waiting to exercise my franchise. I remember a beautiful rainbow of umbrellas all over Lagos, as voters waited to cast their ballot; it is the symbol of hope to which I cling...

April Fools (I): Road To Perdition

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