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...

Death of A Husband

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...

Death of A Husband

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...

How Do Ideas Come To You?

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 Biggest Secret

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...

Woman in the Mirror

In May of 1998, she blessed me by touching my head three times. I never saw her again...

Why Aren't You Married?

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...

The Not So Subtle Art of Begging

I have always thought that begging was what people in dire need resorted to when there was absolutely no other recourse. I thought it was something done quietly and humbly out of necessity. I am finding that this is not always the case...

Not my Style

I had never lost my wallet before, but it happened just the other night.   How I made it home, I had no clue.  I was flat out of my mind.  I was a walking time bomb!

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The Vulnerability Of Nigerian Youths During Election

As the 2015 general election draws close, we have...

Cultural Diplomacy In The 21st Century

As if to make up for the disastrous consequences of the Berlin Conference of 1884-5, which neatly divided Africa into European spheres of influence  with its attendant mayhem on Africa, a new spirit of collaboration between Europe and Africa is being fostered by the  European African Alliance...

Misplacement of facts in Abia

No matter how they have tried to justify ineptitude as sensitivity, Orji should stop trying hard to show a remarkable record of his government, which the people have marked as ghastly...

The Evolving Poetics of the Jagaban of Borgu

Aspects of Nigeria have been compared to a dancing...

When Will Trump Renovate the White House?

Shortly after his election as president of Nigeria, Bola...

American Gun Rights: Imbecilic Infantilism

There are some Americans who pretend to be of medieval stock and act as if they are hunters and gatherers of yore, and they insist on gun ownership to enable them hunt ducks, turkeys and deer, for lunch as the natives did 400 years ago!

An Omission in the Anti-Corruption Bill

In a thorough legal review by the Curatorum of...

A Vision of Sweat, Tears and Blood

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where...

Reflections on Generations without a Future and Their Slide into Cultural Illiteracy

A generation has grown up in Europe in which a “feral underclass” is sliding into hate-based, racist-driven cultural illiteracy. As victims of cultural degeneracy, hooked on the hip-up mind-set, the young people of Europe are on down-ward slide...

A Vessel Leaking From The Top

The way the federal government bungled the planned redenomination of the national currency by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is about the clearest proof that President Yar’Adua has been held hostage by some sinister forces outside government...