Introspective

Call Me Tony: A Parable of Corporate Nigeria

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...

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...

We Are Neither

Don't you sometimes wonder where our attitudes and beliefs originate? Whether you agree or not, people are basically a product of their environment, cultures and beliefs...

The Nostalgia Of Unshed Tears

Two young men leap into the rectangular hole hewn out of the red earth to receive the white coffin that housed the bodily remains of my beloved aunt. As family members pay her final respects, the young men shovel heaps of red earth to cover the glistening white coffin till it's shut out of our view forever...

The Sting of Death

In spite of the very many attempts to explain or subdue the power of death, the ‘death phenomenon’ has quite proven to be one thing that mankind cannot overcome...

Morals, What Morals?

It amuses me when people preach morals or claim to hold themselves to a higher moral standard. Wise men and women know that there is no such thing as a higher standard...

Are Some Men Really “More” Equal? Identifying the Trained Elephant in You

Many of us exist in various states of mental freedom. Whilst the fetters and chains have been physically removed and laws have long declared us free, many of us continue to struggle with our mental freedom for various reasons...

Agreeing To Not Disagree For The Common Good

We really can't imagine what potential resources are available to us for the good of all, when we begin to make efforts to agree in principle with one another. Disagreements only lead to chaos...

Dreams Come True!

Nigeria will become the most desirable country to live in by 2025 and the most powerful nation on earth by 2040. Believe it and we will achieve it...

Been There, Done That

I feel a little sorry for people in their 20s because no one will tell them that early adulthood can be just as tumultuous as teen years.  Only this time, adult mistakes have adult consequences and they will make loads of them...

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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...

Rethinking President Obasanjo

Long before Nelson Mandela, President Obasanjo was the man who was associated with high standards and probity.Somehow he threw all that away. How? Why?

The Twilight Hours or a Journey Begun

In a state of animated shock, I stared at my surroundings. I was in a hospital ward, So I had recovered from the anesthesia. I remembered being wheeled into the operating room...

300 Billion Dollars Worth Poverty of Ideas!

If you think there is anything worse than a poverty of ideas, try spending 400 billion dollars in Iraq without discernible results!

Single, Separate and Whole!

Being single doesn’t mean being alone. It means being alive, alert, aglow and unattached… at the moment. So the fear of dining alone, attending the cinema alone or going out alone is just that... fear!

Is Government in Nigeria a family business?

Running the government by consensus without fiscal responsibility and accountability and robbing Peter to pay Paul is what has gotten us into the predicament we are now in...

Taking An Opinion Poll…A Response to Sabella Abidde

What you are essentially disputing in your critique is not that some of the observations I have made in my write-up are totally wrong, but that you think it is too early to judge...

Making Roads Safer With New Technology

African governments should embark on research projects designed to discover the causes of traffic accidents, prevent them and minimize injuries when they occur...

Transforming NIMASA: Mobereola’s first year

Dayo Mobereola's first year as Director-General of the Nigerian...

Why The Odds Are Stacked Against Tinubu And Apc In 2027: The Gathering Political Storm!

As Nigeria inches closer to the 2027 general elections,...