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 Clarion Call

No nation can thrive in violence, war or famine likewise no citizen can live with his two eyes closed during violence, war or famine...

Jungle Justice in the Jungle

I have always been of the opinion that Lagos is the zenith in the comity of anarchic cities and if you can survive in Lagos, you can do so anywhere else. Alas, I was wrong. I am sorry to let Lagosians know they have no credible claim on chaos...

The Immunity Shroud

In the age of the Internet and credit cards, persons who count hard currency in the millions have access to all forms of transfer. That is why cash transactions of thousands and millions in the modern economies are not only primitive but presumed by the advanced economies as an attempt to evade tracing...

President Buhari’s Interesting Interview With Al Jazeera

During his recent visit to Qatar, President Muhammadu Buhari...

Basil Umeozulu: The Amesi Tree That Made The Forest

There is the popular proverb that goes thus: “A...

The Most Corrupt People In Nigeria?

Men in their late 40s and 50s begin to think seriously about retirement.  In Nigeria when you retire, you are on your own and everything is in the air.  You live in a state of perpetual uncertainty.  You are never sure if you will get your regular entitlements or whether some civil servant thief will make off with it or stick it in his account for a few years...

Boob Jobs And Other Nonsensicalities

Why is it that almost every TV station you turn to you are inundated with procedures for boob jobs, nose jobs and every other 'job' imaginable and purely for cosmetic reasons?

Is the United Nations In Jeopardy?

Militarism and militarization of world politics is posing frightening dangers for mankind. Both in method and subject, a strategic analysis exposes a cross-current of hedonism...

The Failure of the Colonial Legal System in Nigeria: A Rhapsodic Passacaglia on a Legal Theme

Recent unbecoming developments in the Nigerian judiciary have proved me right in my long contempt for the British Colonial legal system that was foisted on Nigeria by British colonial authorities...

Tackling Season of darkness in Nigeria

This is a strange and frightening moment in Nigeria....