Femi Olawole

As far as my father was concerned, globalization did not start with business ventures. It did with religions. His thinking therefore was that if people, across the world, could tolerate mere business ventures of different natures, origins and tastes without any acrimony, why couldn’t they do the same with the different religions?

As far as the Anambra crisis is concerned, even a Nigerian infant can readily point out Chris Uba as the root cause of the crisis. In a State that has produced political giants, technocrats, and intellectuals, it’s really nauseating to see it held to ransom by a man who is generally referred to as a money-miss road...

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the gross inability of the most chronically cynical of Nigerian critics to tolerate the slightest form of criticism when, for once, it’s directed at them...

The white missionaries who condemned as idolatry, the practice whereby animals, foods and money were offered as sacrifice, now turned around to request for the same items... They however branded their own requests under different titles such as offerings, tithes and harvest thanksgivings.

Foluke was alone in the family’s sparsely furnished parlor this afternoon. This was the day the doctor had projected for the expulsion of the fetus in line with the injection she had taken earlier...

In America where an individual must be licensed to perform the most basic of chores, parenting is hardly paid any attention...

There is just no way our sports administrators can ever convince anyone that there are no sprinters in our nation who are younger and faster than the likes of Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, Mercy Nku and Endurance Ojokolo. If the American sprinter (Marion Jones) had been a Nigerian, definitely, she would have represented our nation till she was 90 years old...

Do we all have to meet personally with every one of our public officials to believe that they mean well for the nation?