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Nobody Asked Me, But…
“Ah, that man is very detribalised.”
In Nigeria, this is almost always a compliment.
It is what we say about the politician who...
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...
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...
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...
Your soon to be wife is a virgin. A true virgin. Now, if you accidentally slept with her sister, and again accidentally slept with her step-mother five weeks later, would you tell?
My life was just meaningless dates and acquaintances...and then there was Johnny. It was like things made sense when I met him.We clicked instantly. When I met Johnny, all the noise in my head got quiet and I was happy…goofy happy…like a crazy person...
I didn't shed a tear when I was told that Ye Wande had passed on. I knew she had gone to be with the Lord. I can't tell her age because back then when she was born, there was no record keeping...
Life comes at us in uncanny ways. We may lose a home, a job, a career, or things that mean a lot to us. Some may face financial ruins, illnesses, or debilitating injuries. Things happen. Life happens...
My father is a big man with menacing features. He ruled his household and my home village with an iron hand. No one, no one ever talks back to him, at least not in his presence. My sister was the only person I know who has ever told my father she hated him...
Our fathers, grand fathers and great grand fathers got independence for us from the British, but the North recolonised us immediately before the British even lowered the Union Jack...
Though Obasanjo has a messiah complex and in self glorification allowed sycophants during his administration to continuously refer to him as ‘father of modern Nigeria’, nothing could be farther from the truth....
The 1960 Collective Welcomes the Removal of Hafiz Ringim, but Condemns the Appointment of Mohammed Abubakar as Acting Inspector General of Police in Nigeria...
A press statement, Sunday 31st July, 2011, through the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, David Iyofor, said that the state needed N250 billion Bond...
It is the business of literature to empower us in making the best possible choice in the many alternatives of real life and to illustrate before hand, the consequence of each choice and each alternative whether at school, the family, in the place of work or the club...
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...
Perhaps the time has also come for us to stop calling those carrier bags by the derogatory term ‘Ghana Must Go’; rather it seems more appropriate to call them ‘Corruption Must Go’ in view of their illicit use by some of our corrupt politicians...
On October 1, 1960, Nigeria became an independent, sovereign...
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