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...

The Habits of Success

People have the opinion that being successful means having lots of money. That's false...it's only a beginning. It is just one of the many gauges to measure success.

Get In The Driver's Seat of Your Life!

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Step on The Cutting Edge

The amount of love you have for what you are doing will determine how well it turns out and how far you will go.

A Commitment to Excellence

What are your skills and strengths? In which areas lie your competencies? What do you enjoy doing? What things could you do very easily? What skills do you have that produce results that are of high value to others?

Grow Rich While You Sleep!

A lot of folks sleep for upwards of eight hours in a day. By the time they're sixty, they'd have slept for 20 years! Here's how to use the sleep state to become richer

Standard of Good and Evil (Judge not lest thou be judged)

It is important to differentiate between the laws of society (which is not perfect) and the laws of God, which is impartial, infallible and non-partisan.

D a r k V i s i o n s

Who is the audience of the immigrant creator of art? Has he exiled himself from relevance by moving away from his country...and all the cultural elements that give his art life?

Major Minority

The Hispanics are suddenly commanding more attention from businesses and politicians because they are about to eclipse the reign of the Blacks in America as the most populous minority in the US...

Don't miss

Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961 (4)

It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."

An Open Letter from Awo, Balewa and Zik to President G. E. A. Jonathan

n behalf of all Nigerians in heaven, we are using this forum to congratulate you for winning the recently concluded general elections that will usher you in as an elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 29th of May...

The Second Coming

My boss asked for Lion meat when I told him I was going to Africa for the holidays...

Elected Representatives: Servants or Masters?

“Not to know what happened before you were born...

Climate Change: The End Time Myth

That the natural world is degraded from what it...

Ngala Eight-Eight

I’ve lived in America for more than twenty years. It’s a society that automatically views the caning of children as a form of abuse, bordering on torture. Make no mistake: I thoroughly enjoyed my youthful indiscretions, but didn’t find it funny when it came time to pay the price by being caned...

EFCC vs. Kalu: Looking Beyond Slander, but Truth…

The EFCC made Kalu a culprit whereas no court has said so, which is against the Nigerian judicial notion which says that a suspect remains innocent till convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction...

Politicians are Ready; Are the People Ready?

The primaries are over. Some politicians are happy. Many...

Kilimanjaro

No one in my village has climbed Kilimanjaro before although rumour has it that some witches did a symposium there in 2003. One cannot authenticate their claims so to all intents and purposes, na Babawilly first reach Kilimanjaro from Ukuagbe Village...

Fighting With Writing

Viral Poems by Sunny Ayewanu; Bookdoctors Ventures Publishing, Lagos,...