Lifestyle & Fashion

Naira Marley, His Music And The Youth

Today, youths learn mostly from the entertainment industry and they model their lives after their favorite artistes. Unfortunately, some of the current artistes in...

The Folly and Vanity of Social Media “Friendship”

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” This quote is attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who wrote extensively...

Nigerian Youth: Everywhere but Nowhere

Any nation that doesn’t give its young population the necessary support and an enabling environment to contribute their quota in this digital era may...

Too Much Make Up Turns Off Most Men

I am a strong advocate for good looks, but decency and modesty shouldn't be substituted for fashion and trends...

Time for Dress Code for Nigerian Women

We must agree on one thing before we proceed in our all important piece today.  Should women be clothed as human beings?

Saggy Trouser Vs Erotic Cleavage

Quality kids are becoming extinct. A virgin is seen as abnormal. It is now near impossible for our daughters to cling to their virginity until that blissful night of nights on a scented matrimonial bed...

Hair Holiday or Moratorium By Black Women As Economic Stimulus

Continental Africans and women of African descent can be rightly said to be obsessed with having and not having hair. At the risk of generalizing and stereotyping, all Black women have a hair fixation...

ABSU and its absurd dress code

Prof Mkpa, who for many years was the university’s orator, shocked the new and old students the other day when he reeled out a set of dress code, reminiscent of the famed Babylonian king, Hammurabi....

Worst Fashion Mistakes Of 2009

A lot of overweight women in their attempt to be sexy end up squeezing themselves into clothes that are ill fitting. This was a common sight in 2009. If you are in doubt, check the fashion pages of magazines published this year...

Blue Eyes, Green Eyes, Cat Eyes, Frivolous and Black?

Why do continental Africans and people of African descent feel the need to wear blue, green and cat-like contact lenses? Who, exactly, does a continental African with blue eye looks like?

Hair from Hong Kong Bleached Skin Favored by Black Men?

What does our unwillingness to retain our identity say about us? What does it this say about our state of mind and our sense of selves?

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The Choice of Ibrahim Babangida As President

To overlook determining our future with choice of a better candidate than Mr. Babangida is to accept that we cannot reason with the former military dictator and his supporters...

Reuben Abati and the Nigerian Guardian

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A Path Choked With Weeds

The average Nigerian lusts for easy wealth and society no longer questions the source of such wealth, rather flaunting such ill gotten wealth is the eulogized in glossy magazines...

Southwest and the power of early preparation

The Southwest, although it now laudably has a Development...

What If Obama Nominated A Black Woman To The US Supreme Court?

As a matter of diversity and demographics which truly reflects America, it is well past time when an African American woman arrives at the hallowed halls of the US Supreme Court...

Yoruba Roonu Dada…(1)

My mission and response to Lukman-El-Rufai's articles is to show Senator Tinubu, the leadership of the ACN and Yoruba respectively that  the intention of Buhari and El-Rufai to form an alliance with ACN against the 2015 elections has nothing to do with their love for Nigerians...

Diane Abbott And Our 'Patriots'

I will not condemn Diane Abbott. I would rather regard her as a true friend of the long suffering masses of Nigeria. The real enemies of Nigeria and Nigerians are those discrediting her unimpeachable testimony...

Peter Obi, Churches, and Night Vigils

Nigeria’s undisputed political sensation and Labour Party’s presidential aspirant...