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...

Conversations With My Mom!

I sat still taking tutorials on selfless love from my ageing mother. A lesson borne out of her experiences in life, a pot-pourri of triumphs laced with much pain and sorrow...

A Date With A Prostitute

Abuja is replete with seemingly innocent streets that house prostitutes of different hues and shapes at night...

Wisdom Azubuike: One Year In Memory

I seek a legal framework that will protect women in their homes, communities, and states in Nigeria. A law that outlaws domestic violence and entitles them to own property and recognizes their right to inheritance…

Help Comes From Unexpected Places

Mike continued to pray silently. He wasn’t even praying for God to deliver them, rather he was asking God to accept their souls for he considered himself and Mohammed as dead men walking...

Long Lost Sister

I had always known that I had a half-brother, Papa’s first child by his German girlfriend in his college days. Papa never spoke of him...

Memories of Childhood

My growing years were spent amidst a crowd of relatives. At every point in my young life there was an uncle, aunt or cousin in residence. Some I remember with fondness, others with intense dislike...

Metaphor of the Beard

I remember growing up and wanting to have beard. At fifteen, all I ever dreamt of was having a face covered with hair. Why? Just so I could be respected by everybody around...

Anywhere But Here

Two months ago in a flat in Festac town I met Calistus for the first time. A third year engineering student from University of Benin, we had similar tastes in music, films and women. He had been denied a Schengen Visa third time running...

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Leadership and the Rest of Us

The gulf between those who believe that what our country needs are good leaders rather than good governance and those who lay emphasis on good governance may never be bridged. For example, a great mind like Chinua Achebe died believing that the problem with Nigeria was poor leadership...

On the History of Nigeria Railways

What was left for us by the British as a legacy of colonialism, we found it difficult to build on, not to talk of sustaining and improving it, contrary to such in other parts of the world. That is the way Nigeria has gone…

Would CAN elect Desmond Tutu President?

Long after Tutu showed the world how the church can help people against tyranny and bad governance, Nigerians had to deal with brutal military regimes and corruption, and we are yet to discover the positions of many of our most prominent men and their women of God against those that oppress and abuse power...

Good People, Great Nation

Nigeria has unveiled a new logo and slogan for its national rebranding campaign which the Information and Communications Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili says signals the march towards national re-birth...

The Niger Delta Disturbance: Militant Gangsters or a Military Gang-up?

In many African countries the wrong kinds have made it to leadership.  They seek power for their own aggrandizement rather than having a real understanding of the need to improve their countries or its people...

Apologies to the Past

The 54th anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence was a day...

Turning the Tide: Resetting Nigeria’s Economy, Post Covid-19

Covid 19 has become an enlightening and an unusual...

Who Says Global Meltdown Is All Bad News?

If every great depression is always bad, how come it has always ushered in a better capitalism than the one it destroyed?

Do We Need Any Constitutional Role for Traditional Rulers?

Around the 27th of December 2010, the news media reported the promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to send a Bill to the National Assembly for the purpose of enshrining in the Constitution some role(s) for Nigerian traditional rulers. The debate over the propriety or otherwise of such a constitutional provision has been raging in Nigeria...

Letter to a Facebook girlfriend

My Dear, I have avoided treating leprosy with the prescription for malaria...