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 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...

The Scent of Death

Death has a peculiar scent. In the business of saving lives, one ends up hanging around that scent quite a bit. It assaults your nostrils, clings to your clothing and messes with your mind, tauntingly reminding you of your failure...

Don't miss

One Nigeria: To Be or Not To Be? (Part 6)

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another 'killing rampage' in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the claim that the North can not sustain itself and relies completely on the resources of the South to survive...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

African American Experience and Lessons for Africans Caribbean Immigrants

It is almost taken for granted these days that life is good for African Americans in the United States. This is assumed, even though life is still full of racial impediments and obstacles for a majority of African Americans...

Homelessness in Nigeria, the Growing Scourge

More than three quarters of Nigerians who sleep outside daily have found themselves in that condition from a variety of factors, but mostly because the government seemingly has no place in its plans for their welfare…

Race-Relations Regressing In America

O'Reilly and persons like him just make my head spin, what with the monumental ignorance that they publicly exhibit? His dumb comments encapsulate and exemplify the state of affairs in race-relations in today's America...

Let’s Tap into This!

Japan is currently the world’s second largest developed economy...

The Role of Civil Society and Governmental Agencies in the Fight against Corruption, Poverty and Terrorism in Africa

The governance process in Africa is reflective of the current democratic wave and to this extent; it is abundantly evident that increasingly the continent is shifting away from the pervasive trend of “bad” governance towards “good” governance...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! Part 8

The Niger Deltans should not be naive nor have any illusion as regards to a new ministry set up by Yar'Adua and the criminals surrounding him. Suffice to say that the ministry is as good as the official paper that was used to type its creation...

Why The Short And Ugly Are Married

The Nigerian man, aside listening to his mother's golden advice when its time to choose a life partner, wants a happy home, wants to be in control and be respected...

The Great African Survival

Riding The Storm: The Untold Story of Africa’s Response...