Taju Tijani

Shorn of its grisly spiritual sentiment, the celebration of Xmas has been an occasion to pamper our kids with all things merry: Xmas dress, shoes, bags, watches, books, DVDs, toys, Computer games and bicycles…

The prevailing cliché at the moment is the silly projection that Yar’ Adua will still rule this country for another 5 years. I have been tempted to see that dream as a dreadful, fabulous, sweeping illusion...

Rather than see Okadigbo's ugly sidekick as an acid humour or at worst, a benign blether from an ambitious political office jobber, Zik saw a chilling Kafkaesque aberration in the insult. Rather than dignifying the insult with reasoned rebuttal, Zik sought supernatural settlement…

In the Nigerian netherworld of blinkered vision, all of us look but few of us see.  Our rulers, no, Northern rulers especially, have acclimated and conditioned our flaccid reflex to accept some level of socially skewed tribalism. And because they go unchallenged, this insult morph into malignant and incurable tribal vectors threatening the very foundation and sustenance of our ongoing democratic experiment...

With the mass, historic and hysterical surrender of the Boy’s Scout fighters along the Niger Creeks, it becomes obvious that the causal nexus of militancy has been defeated. What a sorry sight to see a rag tag multitude of untrained ‘freedom fighters’ hurry to surrender...

Katie Price, iconically known as Jordan, always presents me with a moral dilemma. Is it really chic to flash your chesty asset in people's faces and live and be proud of the proceeds of such shameless perversion?

My domain at CMS Grammar School, the library, was meant to be a place of dead silence, serious study and academic enquiry. But the arrogant, spoilt-brat children of Army Generals, captains of industry, Judges, MDs, Perm Secs, Ministers, Intellectuals and famous doctors will prove to be confrontational, rascals, rude and uncontrollable…

Intellectual and business routes to fame and fortune are no longer popular among black kids. They all want to be footballers and live an outlandishly, illiterate lifestyle of Ferrari, white girls, mansions, champagne, drugs, all, mortal destroyers of black man’s wealth in the West...