Introspective

Detribalised Does Not Mean What Most Nigerians Think It Means

Nobody Asked Me, But… “Ah, that man is very detribalised.” In Nigeria, this is almost always a compliment. It is what we say about the politician who...

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...

Love Is All That Matters

I observe people at funerals. All sort of people, it is indeed the gathering of the good the bad and the ugly...

Love Is All That Matters

I observe people at funerals. All sort of people, it is indeed the gathering of the good the bad and the ugly...

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...

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President Obasanjo: The Man With A Selfish Intent

OBJ’s decision to seek a third term is creating a growing level of intolerance among other viable candidates, Nigerians in general and leaders of developed nations.OBJ’s intent is quickly and sadly building a high level of pessimism about Nigeria’s future...

Shades of Racism

Isn’t it only in this part of the world that foreigners almost succeed in making bona-fide nationals look like illegal immigrants?

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...

Nigeria: One Country, Wasted Visions

“We must make sure about two things, namely: that...

Fugitives As Governors In Nigeria?

If anything is to be learnt from Alamieyesegha's brazen escape from London and the bravado with which he has reportedly "resumed" his "authority as governor" of Bayelsa state, it is simply that the provision in Nigeria's constitution of 1999 regarding immunity is now long overdue for amendment or complete repeal...

Again, History Beckons Barack Obama in Cuba

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you...

The Lost Privilege And The Rivers Of Oil

In keeping with my uncanny ability always to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, I ventured to Rivers' political cycle just as various ethnic cysts were ramming polluted "Rivers Of Oil" packed with explosives into then habitable oil city...

Legal Implications of The Benin Appeal Court Judgment In The Edo State Governorship Election Petition

By the judgment of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, in respect of the appeal from the Edo State election petition tribunal judgment that lied with it, the Judiciary has once again demonstrated that it is the custodian of the nation’s nascent democracy and the last bastion of the people’s rights...

Of Dagrin, Hot Suya, Boobs and a Writer’s life

In the UK we take our weekend seriously. What better way to wash off a week of hard slug than a Friday night out with friends in a dimly lit club where an experienced deejay could quickens the heart beat...

Revitalizing Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange Market

In recent months, the Nigerian foreign exchange market has...