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...

Expectations Of An Eligible Spinster…

Part of the reason why a lot of my sisters are not married and are unlikely to find that Mr. Right who would occupy that special place they have reserved for him is that a lot of them are unusual fans of the Rev Martin Luther King: they are dreamers...

Let God Make Your Christmas List This Year

Over time, the original motivation behind offering and receiving gifts at Christmas has changed and in most cases, lost in the euphoria of expectations and demands...

Every Woman (2)

Misunderstood. That is exactly what I am. I find that people tend to misunderstand and misinterpret my good intentions to be bad. My girls think I am selfish, immature, and ungrateful. Harsh words, right?

The Need to Grieve

I am intrigued with the grieving process.It is not some morbid fascination of mine.It's just that I don't recollect ever being able to grieve properly.I am never appropriately upset at the death of a loved one...

Every Woman

To think I was voted most likely to get married in high school. Who would have thought that all my beauty will not get me a good man? But I am a tough cookie, so I remain determined to jump that broom. Everything is set; all I need now is the groom...

Friends and Friendships

How do you tackle a situation where you are best of friends with a woman who is happily married, but you are not friends with her husband?

Mama…Put!

To the initiated, mechanic workshops and mama-put joints have an everlasting relationship. Food connoisseurs like me would tell you that the best foods in the world are eaten at mechanic workshops, and in such other places where good food does not necessarily have to cost your life...

Love And Be Loved

We, women have the tendency to do imprudent things.We know our man is treating us like last month's Chinese food, but instead of facing our problems head-on, we make excuses...

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Of Albert Einstein and Wole Soyinka

There are some strange developments and coincidences happening between...

Babangida: Insensitivity Carried Too Far

There is this perennial, seductive belief out there that IBB is a moving huge bag of money. This bag, though, horribly stained and very unattractive to people with any sense of decency, contains billions of naira and has very generous holes ready to “drop” at any time...

To Your Farms O Nigerians…!

I have read certain sections of JL Austin’s work,...

‘Labalaba’ and the Suya’s fire: Why the short and ugly are married 2

For every relationship or marriage there is always the third man or third party...

Needless Hoopla Over Presidential Veto Of Amended Electoral Bill

Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to the amended...

For Nigeria, A Big Lesson From South Africa And Liberia?

We are ever so generous in volunteering peace keeping forces in Africa and around the world, even though the majority of our citizens are wallowing in abject poverty. We volunteer troops for peacekeeping duties because most of our leaders have seen the budget for such international deployment of troops beyond borders as another Security Vote whose disbursement they are not obligated to explain...

Religion and the Oneness of God

Our bread and water are of one table:  the...

My Neighbor, The Terrorist

Before our very eyes, parts of Nigeria have been transformed into mini-Baghdads and Kabuls. If you stand in a crowd in many a town in the northern part of Nigeria, chances are that the man or woman standing next to you is, quite literally, a ticking explosive...

The Lost Identity: Salvaging A Nation In Distress

Nigeria has faced numerous challenges in achieving sustainable development since independence in 1960 in spite of its abundant human and natural resources...

Nigeria Can Leverage Counterintelligence for Economic Growth

By Paul Okojie In today’s globalized world, economic prosperity is...