Introspective

Call Me Tony: A Parable of Corporate Nigeria

By Temitope Lakisokun The argument over the young trainee who addressed UBA chairman Tony Elumelu by his first name has become a surprisingly revealing debate...

The Myth of New Year Resolutions: Why 2025 Won’t Magically Save You

As we inch closer to the dawn of 2025, the air is thick with the buzz of "New Year, New Me" proclamations. Across the...

The Ageless Myth: Is Age Really Just a State of Mind?

The concept of aging has long been considered a biological certainty, as though an unavoidable countdown is inscribed within our very DNA. Yet, mounting...

Day Dele Momodu Made Me Live Above My Means

These are dangerous days of gross shamelessness in totalitarian Nigeria. Pathetic flaunting of clannish power is all the rage, and a good number of supposedly...

How To Find Hope In A Hopeless Situation

New Year, new wahala! Everywhere you look, its doom and gloom: politicians come and go promising Heaven and Earth, but fail to deliver, leaving the...

Birthday of Ancient Man

My birthday is about to happen, which means that Nigeria is older than me by about three months, but I feel very ancient because...

Joblessness Does Not Frighten The Poet

It is in my DNA to make very powerful enemies. It’s as though I cannot stop myself from fighting diabolical principalities and powers, and their...

Sense of Entitlement

When we view a sense of entitlement from the point of view of one's belief that they deserve privileges even when they do not...

Save the Beloved Country

By Isah Aliyu Chiroma “I have concluded that the best people in the world are those who regard service to their country and their society...

An Essay on Nothing

Nothing can be more jarring than discovering at this moment when one is congratulating oneself on having written on everything only to instantly discover...

Lagos: A Vortex of Secret Stories

In this place, reality exists unsettled... * There is something about Lagos. In this place, reality is warped, unsettled, indecisive on being or not being. More...

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In the midst of Nigeria's complex economic and political...

Nigeria is in Total Darkness

The total darkness experienced by the passengers inbound Nigeria...

The underdevelopment of Ijebu-Jesa, my Native Nazareth (2)

Presidential Aide Alubankudi's gracious response to the first part...

Africa: Child Abuse and Persecution of Children (2)

The traditional African belief and attitude to children has been successfully fractured by those who have deliberately perverted traditional belief and infused it with a distorted dose of Christianity...

And it Came to Pass!

And it came to pass that there was great rejoicing over the solomonic wisdom of Iborilech, son of Ahimelech the Jebusite. And Moloch Yaddie said unto Iborilech: “verily verily I say unto thee, today you will be with me in my Paradise on the Rock”. And it came to pass that Beelzebub granted unto Moloch Yaddie and his children their request of a heavier yoke...

Election Rigging And Other Atrocities: Obasanjo Is NOT Guilty.

Obasanjo has decided to turn the country upside down for being denied the opportunity to rule us till death. He has decided to get his revenge for not being allowed to own and run Nigeria like his private property...

Osun APC Guber Ticket: Aspirants Emerge, Battle Lines Drawn

With the 2026 Osun gubernatorial contest, slated for Saturday,...

Borojah’s Law

“Shock your wife!” I am only reiterating the law handed...

The Bastard Fathers of Modern-Day Democracy and Politics in Nigeria

By Paul Okojie Modern democracy in Nigeria was born out...

Ruth leaves her Root for the Root of Jesse 2: Why come out of Moab?

What is really Moab! Why did Ruth leave, and why with that focus, steadfastness and drive? What is Moab today to Christians? And why must people and, sorry to say, so-called Christians desire the focus, steadfastness and drive to leave it as Ruth did?