Introspective

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...

It’s Time to Take it To the Next Level!

This it! The Whole world is going crazy and you need to prepare yourself to go through incredible tough times for a long time...

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Special Prayer for Election 2007

Ordinarily, an election is supposed to be a transitional and political process whereby the electorate freely and willingly choose those that will govern them. In our case, the situation is different...

Fear of God and Manifestation of the Sons of God

The fear of God or the want of it is what separates the few on the narrow way from the multitudes in the world and multitudes in the Church on the broad-way. The fear of God is what ‘begets’ those eternal sons of God...

The Identity Guard Commercial and Nigeria’s Image

What needs to be done is not the type of image laundering that is being wrongly spearheaded by our Minister of Information Professor Dora Akunyuli. The present rebranding campaign has failed and will not stem the tide of the international battering of Nigeria’s image...

Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation

For the Church to remain relevant, she must find her voice among the myriad of voices. She must cease to be the echo of postmodern ideologies and stand firm on the sure foundation of the eternal word of God...

Has God left Nigeria?

As the condolences pour in for the victims of...

President Obama: ‘Yes You Can’ Make a Difference

It is difficult to imagine the sort of emotions going through Barack Obama’s psyche at this time. Without a doubt he must feel waves of excitement and exhilaration, effusive emotions, which are perhaps only tempered by a competing sense of apprehension...

So That Man May Be Free

When you look at all the people in the world then you start to appreciate those who left their feet on the sand of time, people who did things that is worth remembering them for, the heroes, the champions of the poor and the helpless...

Africa as part of an invisible empire

Economies under invisible empire are ruinously and continuously undermined by systematically moving the economy from one form of fiscal crisis to another, with the intent to perpetuate underdevelopment and dependency on Western financial institutions...

Crisis Foretold

The forces of darkness that are bent on holding Nigeria down are still at work as has been conclusively proved by last Saturday's governorship and State Assembly elections...