Fate was at work to ensure that my last meeting with Alhaji Abdulaziz Chivuzor Ude happened after he had been to an art exhibition. The devoted art...
Let’s take a trip to a very strange country, a way-out country faraway from Nigeria, because I am sick and tired of being sick and tired about writing...
The bag named Ghana-Must-Go is at the very root of all the evils afflicting our dear country Nigeria. All the funds voted for the cure of diseases...
All that any Igbo charlatan needs to hoodwink many a Nigerian leader is to claim that he has the beans to bring the Igbo people to the centre after...
Nigeria is the burial ground of big dreams. Dele Olojede brought great honour to Nigeria by winning the coveted Pulitzer Prize in International...
Religion provides an anchor to the lives of believers. The belief in a Supreme Being lends meaning to man’s existence on earth, and the promise of the...
Unhappy is the country whose leader is not properly educated. Going to school is a matter of urgent national importance unless Nigerians want to...
Fear and superstition have taken over Nigeria, and church pastors are having a ball preaching occult miracles of emptiness. I have a book here with me...
The hot button in Nigeria today is to crow of secession. It does not matter if the jumped-up secessionist leader can in truth tell the boundaries of...
Nothing can be more jarring than discovering at this moment when one is congratulating oneself on having written on everything only to instantly...
The music was more arresting than a lover’s summons. Call it the music of the spirits that intervolves the ancient and the modern. It was...
He called himself the Ultimate Lagos Big Boy. Some called him Owo Lagba, that is, Money Power, while some others preferred to call him Lagos Yuppie...
Big Brother Naija, BBNaija for short, is one television show that no Nigerian can ever escape from. Whether you like to watch it or not, it is always...
There’s this book by Peter Enahoro entitled You Gotta Laugh to Cry. The so-called democratic elections in Nigeria almost always end up making all...