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...

Getting It Right

Our lives represent the greatest project of destiny, and if you must become who you desire to be, you must embark on a program of preparation to prevent frustration tomorrow…

The Oral Tradition: Performance and the Revival of the Book

The naturally gifted poet of African extraction who is well steeped in his culture would always find the four corners of a page too limiting. Performance allows the words to grow legs, gives imagery colour and lends credibility to the position taken. The book suddenly comes alive for the reader!

Riding The Crest

A guy knocks on my door. He said that he just wanted to know what a rich man looked like before he became rich...

Getting an Edge Where It Matters Most

Don’t let anybody deceive you, if hard work indeed brings prosperity, every coal miner in South Africa would be richer than Michael Jordan, Geoge Soros and Warren Buffet put together...

Demons

I am not a nice person. I come before everybody. If at all you are unfortunate to come within my sphere of existence, chances are, you are there to fulfill some need of mine...

The Unspoken Rule

Human nature does not love the unlovable and the un-useful. God, though lenient, still sentences all sinners to hell...

The Wisest Man in the World

Human love or affection is what most people call love. Emotional love is unreliable. It swings from left to right faster than the rolling hips of a supermodel...

Living Your Dreams in 2003

Create your ideal day, if you don't have one yet. Your ideal day is a mental concept of how you want to spend a perfect day. To achieve your goals this year you might have to cut down on your hours of sleep...

Don't miss

The Nigerian Press and Creative Headline Writing

I have often wondered why Nigerian newspapers have not caught up with their counterparts in the west, in serving their readers appetising and imaginative headlines...

Ndigbo: Architects of our Own Problems

As Ndigbo, we shouldn't pretend that all is well...

Prof. Osunbor Selects Lucky Imasuen as Deputy

Is Lucky Imasuen capable of the role and the framework designed to succeed as a deputy to Osunbor? I can't respond to this question.What I hope is that he doesn't function based solely on the law of reciprocity...

Fela! Lives on Broadway

In life and six feet below the ground, Fela Anikulapo Kuti remains an enigma to be decoded to many and mystery to be unraveled by both his fans and detractors...

The Gospel of Materialism – Nigerian Pentecostalism and Hypocrisy

Our Christian men of God today have contributed in no small ways to the social upheaval the Nigerian nation is going through at the present moment. They laid the foundation of greed and social discontent...

Reinventing Education In Nigeria

Anyone who still wonders why America is regarded as the most powerful nation in the world should visit an average university campus in God’s own country...

Serena Williams’ Super Bowl Dance: A Powerful Statement Beyond the Headlines

In a moment that transcended the typical Super Bowl...

Trashed Probe: A Service Fee Crash Or The Due Process Casualty

From the look of things it appears that we don't have the will power to move a nation from economic and political obscurity to the luminous progress of the present global dispensation...

Emefielization of the Buhari Administration

If we were under any circumstances to say that...

A-Z of Delta State Sorry Story!

Ibori was an avowed disciple of Abacha. He was one of the Abacha boys in that dark age of our national life. That has been said already. But we make haste to say here: like Abacha, like Ibori!