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...

Ahem, We Really Need To Talk

Whether you are male or female, breakups are never a thing of joy; and being the dumper or ‘dumpee’ does not make much of a difference either...unless you have a heart of stone...

Marriage: The Lawyer And My Sister

The young men used to call her Itiri, a local word for darkness. They called her Itiri because her skin was unusually dark, surpassing the blackness of a moonless night. Being darker than midnight, her figure remained outlined in a visible silhouette long after everyone else's had blended with the West African nightfall…

The President’s Daughter?

She tells me she likes me. That she loves me. That I make her laugh. She likes it when I sponge and towel her. She tells me I reside in her soul, that she dream of me at night and daydream about me in her waking moments. I send her roses...

Grandpa And The White Man

There was this crazy white man stationed in my village. Please don’t ask me what he was doing there; I don’t know and I don’t want to lie to you. All that I remember now is that he was with some oil company. He was a terror. He went round the village at odd hours with his tobacco and cigar in his mouth, spitting all over the place, insulting the elders, and swearing at us the youths...

Possible Impossibilities

Can we conveniently conclude that God is capable of all we have attributed to Him? Are we not endowing him with more than He merits? Indeed, are the proof of his potentials incontrovertible? I think those of us in the habit of calling God to witness where and when He is not needed are a bunch of blackmailers...

Can You Imagine?

The dimwit, the mentally deranged or retarded, the idiot or stupid ones may not be in position to appreciate "imagination" as a divine endowment of Man, even though they possess one of its basic components...the heart...

Where Will You Die?

Will death come when you are alone and lonely in a nursing home, at a hospice or in a hospital ward away from the love and gaze of your people? When death comes, will your children be around you or away tending to their own lives in far away places?

The Two Johnnies – A Tribute

“I am a fag, a dirty stinking fag, I am to be seen and not to be heard. I come from the bush village of X where we eat frogs toads and rats..."

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Every year now since 2004, Mercy Foundation, MF, an NGO based in the US, has collaborated with Pro Health International based in Jos, Nigeria to bring local and international professionals together to provide free health care to rural dwellers...

NAFDAC and Its Numbers

On a daily basis, Nigerians are faced with the unnecessary task of deciding which one is authentic among the ever growing, yet inexhaustible list of drugs for different ailments...

Averting demographic disaster in Nigeria

Events in various parts of the country in recent times ranging from sectarian violence in the North, militancy in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, armed robbery and kidnapping incidents in major cities and towns all point to the dangers an unengaged but active youth population can pose to a country...

Promise: I Want To Change My Name

Promise is a common English word that denotes a...

Ruth leaves her Root for the Root of Jesse 1: Steadfastness and Vision!

When both Ruth and Orpah left Moab with Naomi for Canaan, little did Ruth know that hers was an eternal step with God she was taking, whilst Orpah couldn’t see that she was returning to eternal damnation...

Mark my words, Nigeria and Africa shall be free

What will it take to free Nigeria? Can one man do it? Can we do it together? Should the will of the majority be held perpetually in bondage by the tyranny of a thieving minority?

Astonishing! So He Rose Up!!!

Yes. And a resounding yes that the Lord got...

Lawmakers As Thugs

Why would Balonwu and his co-travellers on the boulevard of infamy physically attempt stopping the governor from carrying out her lawful duties? Is it part of their lawmaking responsibilities? What manner of desperation would inform such ignoble conduct?

The Constant Nip In The Bud

Lack of support for Nigerian citizens is yet one of the many reasons the smartest Nigerians are supporting the technological growth of Countries other than Nigeria...

Notes on 'Notes from the Underground'

My maiden voyage to the illuminating world of Literature was via a small, big book...