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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Revitalizing Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange Market

The recent interventions by the Central Bank of Nigeria...

The PMBAT Curse: A Nation Shackled to a Mythology of Bad Luck?

In ancient Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux— the celestial...

The Apt Censure from London!

Recently London played host to a host of countries...

Andy Uba and the Hungry and Angry 'Gods'

History will yet prove that among those infamous men and women who 'aided' Obasanjo to defraud Nigeria for eight long years Andy Uba knew much more than any other...

For Nigeria; What Have You to Contribute?

If someone were to ask what the most crippling problem of Nigeria is, we will not have a moment’s hesitation in deciding that it is infidelity and irresponsibility to the affairs of the nation...

Anarchy as a weapon of power

I was wondering if Nigeria should out of fear calmly succumb to the glorification of Atiku’s destructive self ambition. Perhaps, we should simply call the forthcoming (s)election a no-show and simply ask Jonathan to hand over to Atiku without even a pretext at voting...

Matters Arising: War Against Corruption Revisited

Events in the past two weeks and beyond have cast very serious doubts on Nigerians’ optimism that the war against corruption in the polity and in governance, by the government of President Yar’Adua is being fought convincingly and being won...

A Few Good Men…

I think it should be a prerequisite for all aspirants of a political office in Nigeria to rent at least the first two seasons of '24' In fact, '24' ought to be included in some miscellaneous administration budget and incorporated as a training tool for every government official...

The Dark Side Of Black People!

We could blame genetics for all the violent crimes that are committed by Blacks. We could point our fingers at African Americans for the high rate of crime in America. Heck, we could even blame lack of parental discipline, poverty, or a liberal society. The bottom line is this…I am sick and tired of it...

To Date A Married Man

There have been many cases of married men who have come to speak the words to me that in their heads, no woman can say no to: I want to marry you. There have been men who have tried to pretend to be unmarried, men who have said they are unmarried but quickly explained why their wives have made it an unbearable marriage, and why I, have been sent by God to save them...