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...

Have Some Christians Truly Cornered the Market on Goodness?

Like many other people, I have my fair share of questions about everything from the creation of the universe to why we exist as human beings. I will continue to question, but I refuse to throw my hands up and attribute anything to a supreme being...

Lovers Behaving Badly

My addiction to the personal computer and the internet has often made me to wonder if I could have coped and managed in another age and time...

One For The Money

Think of the many things you could do if you were a millionaire, and all the many people in Africa you could pay school fees for. Who wouldn't like to stop cursing the postman every time he delivers the credit card bills...

An Encounter with a Beauty Goddess

"He must be sacrificed tonight" the lady said with an air of authority. She had no more smiles. That beautiful face and charm that electrified me hours ago have turned to a fiendish mien...

An Encounter with a Beauty Goddess

"He must be sacrificed tonight" the lady said with an air of authority. She had no more smiles. That beautiful face and charm that electrified me hours ago have turned to a fiendish mien...

The Journey Of The Footman!

I am the footman, a citizen of no known nation, or kingdom that exists in the modern world. I live in a solitary cave in an enclave far-removed from the vagaries of modern existence...

Grandpa and the Madman

It is true that here in our land timeliness is a worthless quality and lateness to ceremonies is a dignified virtue worthy of admiration. It is true that no self-respecting citizen makes the mistake of arriving on time for scheduled events. But five hours late?

The Senator Who Came To Marry My Sister

If the hunted animal runs in an unexpected manner, an Igbo proverb goes, the hunter should shoot it in an equally unexpected manner. The problem here, however, was that the manner in which this animal had bolted was not only unexpected but unimaginable...

Don't miss

Our dishonorable legislators: Was Obasanjo right?

To be honest, I was never a fan of Chief Obasanjo in and out of office, but I might again change my posture if what is currently brewing at the lower house is found to be true at the end of the day...

Nigeria: A Complicated System – (2)

What saddens me most is the list of those that have written several articles on the subject of corruption, with continuously growing criticism, yet, in their rush to criticize OBJ, not a simple recommendation, regardless of how insidious, is made...

Delta Rerun, Registration: Facts, Logic unsettling Uduaghan

Whether INEC was made by way of carrot or just conned to blast us with the recent make-belief Delta rerun election result is still debatable? What is, however, not debatable is that the result abuses commonsense...

Nigeria and the Art of Going Backwards

I liked the ‘old’ national anthem, ‘Nigeria we...

Biyi Bandele Who Came In From The Back Of Beyond

He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the...

COVID-19 And Nigeria’s Pathetic Leadership Deficite

There is no better warning about the growing confusion...

Welcome to America; Bye Bye, Nigeria

“Until you know how African you are, you don’t know...

Musings on Love

Love your enemies  -- Matthew 5:4 Man is a social...

Seeing America From Their Eyes…

Quite a lot of us Nigerians who have not had the so-called good fortune to visit God's own country are often regaled with the phantasmagoria of what we miss. And indeed we do. The sweet stories vary from the real to the surreal...

Where is our humanity?

A serious country come together in time of crisis...