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...

Blogging – The New Ebe Ano

So what have I discovered since I bought my house in Blogville? Nothing that I did not know already. I'm still heterosexual, I'm still sweet, I'm still not attracted to metrosexuals, I'm still a little bit of a clean freak, I'm still trying to experience romantic love in a romantic way...

Every Woman (4)

"I get all carried away, let me tell you a little about myself. I'm pretty sure you have met my friends, and they have all described me as bubbly. Indeed, I am bubbly, but most times, I only appear to be bubbly. Austin proposed to me after we found out I was pregnant with our daughter, Ekanem. He claims that he would have proposed even if I wasn't pregnant; I know I only accepted his proposal because I was pregnant..."

When A Man Gazes At A Woman

The genius of a man’s eyes works optimally upon alighting a woman’s 

body. With his eyes, a man can conveniently strip a well-clad woman to 

the bare...

The Blessings of Adversity

Our world is a world of visible ambivalence, paradoxes and contradictions. Things don't always go smooth and rosy like we'd always expect them to... Yet, wise men of old knew that a world without opposites would be flavourless...

African Men And The Culture Of Many Women

I know American men who, despite being married, admire other women and some of them do date other women outside marriage. So that is not an African thing. That is a man thing...

Do You Have Regrets…or Disappointments?

What are your regrets or disappointments? What would you do differently? Are you happy with life and happy with yourself? Or perhaps you need more time and more opportunities to do this and that and everything that slipped through your fingers...

Once Upon So Many Decades

Let me tell you of a time when pupils knew all the names of the administrators, ministers, commissioners, president and prime-ministers and other government officials. We could tell the number of Local Government Areas in the whole country. We crammed prominent dates and names. We knew our Civics. We could recite verses from Chaucer...

When A Woman Loves A Man

One of the greatest motivations a guy can experience is the assurance of a woman's love. It can inspire poems of the avante garde genre. She may hide it as long as she can but her voice, her eyes and actions would betray her no sooner...

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The Nigerian Educational System –A Deceitful View

In Nigeria, the educational sector is similar to the flat wheel on which were sequential images of students going to school, studying for JAMB, NECO, WAEC and degree exams. When examinations were conducted, the students were “seen” to pass their exams. But in reality, the students do not pass...

Customer Service, Consumer Rights, Help!

Is it not bad enough that we have an apathetic government that is insensitive to our plights, why do we not learn to make life easy for ourselves? What we do to ourselves, as Nigerians, is disheartening. Why do we torture ourselves?

NMA 2007 Winners: Were They Our Best For The Last Decade?

The “of the decade” idea in the whole show did not do the awards any good. Hence, right from the start the 2007 NMA had a peculiar line of criticism to contend with...

Interview with IBB

I was military president. I ruled as a dictator and what you must understand then was that I was accountable to myself and not to any House of Representatives or Senate. When you rule as a dictator, the wealth of a nation is considered spoils of war. Bob, what do you do with spoils of war?

Will Mr Tinubu Release Forensic Report on NDDC?

There is only one research document on abandoned, substandard...

The Corruption and Evil of Employment Scams in Nigeria

This article has been written in sad response to...

World Forestry Congress XV for Korea organises social media reporters group

Activities leading to a successful World Forestry Congress, WFC,...

Emergency Preparedness Plan in Local Communities: The Role of Stakeholders

The transport of dangerous goods within communities is increasing.  The demands for improved efficiency and increased capacity often require use of dangerous processes and substances to boost production...

It is Premature to Hail the Chief

To say the current President Bush is “great” is premature. We don’t know. We simply don’t know yet! And we cannot know until a while into the future..

High-Priced Mediocrities

A Nigeria run by its least visionary and enlightened elements – men and women whose imagination is fixed on the size of their bank accounts – is in no shape to achieve the Millennium Development Goals...