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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...
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...
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...
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...
In different parts of the world, irrespective of religion, tradition and culture, widows are victims of violence and oppression at the hands of close family members and so-called friends, especially their in-laws...
In different parts of the world, irrespective of religion, tradition and culture, widows are victims of violence and oppression at the hands of close family members and so-called friends, especially their in-laws...
The one thing about thoughts in the loo or in the bath is that they are usually very distinct. They are clearer than the ones you have in your sitting room or in your car...
My father had been diabetic and because he was not particularly a man of some means, the disease wore him out. My father became paralyzed losing the use of most of his sense organs...
He had a nice face, his nose was round like mine, and his eyes were smiling at me. He looked like a cool breeze, like fresh rain on a summer morning.I liked looking at his face...his face just took all the butterflies, known and unknown, away...
For many Lagosians, riding daily on okada is an unavoidable part of their daily routine as only the ‘kings of the road’ have the daredevil DNA to waltz, dash, slide, ride and manoeuvre their way through the thick Lagos traffic...
Christmas is a time when many Nigerians abroad go on a carnal carnival to Lagos to recharge exhausted libido. Lagos is becoming a city to relight the fire and not a place for the sexually static...
Political debates are heating up Nigeria for the 2015 presidential elections. The debates are divided among regions, political divides and individuals in the country...
If anybody needed some dire sign that Nigeria has little to show for the first fifty years of its life, a particularly disturbing and bloody one was given last Friday...
In Yellow-Yellow, we see a Nigeria rotting in place as its people desperate for affirmation and survival engage in an elaborate okoso system of getting whatever they need in return for whatever they can give...
Nigeria is not a nation – not a nation like the English or French or the Welsh. It is a geographical entity and contraption sold to the British government by the Royal Niger Company...
Wedlock ought to be serious business of very serious...
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