Man & Woman

Woman As The Pearl Of Valentine

There’s no better way to give proper attention to Valentine’s Day than celebrating the essence of womanhood. It is incumbent on me to deliver knockout...

Oni, BAO and the mathematics of alignment

The recent realignment in the UK - where figures like Robert Jenrick are “uniting the right” - proves the “defection bug” is no longer...

Osun APC, Tinubu’s hand and the Ides of March

Ahead of the 2026 Osun governorship election, it is incontrovertible that a consensus candidate has been chosen for the All Progressives Congress (APC). He...

The Evil Merchant

The concept of marriage is an exceptionally phenomenal one that the natural human mind cannot fully comprehend. The natural human mind cannot understand spiritual...

Tragedies of Gender-Based Violence in Edo State

Written by Ekoh Eloho Angel Kafayat Died! Yes, she died some months ago. It was a cold morning as it had rained cats and dogs the...

Tales of the Single Nigerian Woman

Nigeria is still very much a conservative country in which marriage is seen as the completion of a man or a woman. You may earn...

By-Products of Infidelity

Can infidelity go out of fashion? Having sex with someone who is not your wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend does not seem to be...

“Shaking the tables” of Patriarchy

This article issued from my response, to Iyke Ekeocha on a debate on abortion, presently raging on my wall. I covered a few grounds in...

Once in a while, things do fall apart

Crisis is part of everyday life. Human beings think and act differently based on several factors, to have a healthy union; we must develop...

When ‘Hello’ becomes an Assault

Women still have reason to be terrified in the streets... Living in America, away from my sisters and my mother, often motivates me to reflect...

For my Nigerian and Black sisters: Give us hope

I love our Nigerian sisters. My mother and my sisters are black Nigerian women. If I disparage black women, I disparage my own blood...

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IPCR Leads Advocacy Visit to Strengthen Conflict Early Warning and Early Response

The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), in...

(Not) Negotiating with Ghosts

I was reading a report in last Sunday’s edition of the Punch titled “FG Rules out Direct Talks with Boko Haram” when a statement by presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, jumped out at me. According to the paper, Mr. Abati confirmed that the Goodluck Jonathan administration was not in direct talks with Boko Haram...

Wole Soyinka Publishes New Novel

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Deliver Me From Sexual Temptations!

Much as I was growing in my love-relationship with God, I experienced some degree of struggle with sexual temptations which awed me. In my naïve mind, I had thought that getting born again would assuage the sexual tension most young men face from their teen years...

Kano, Nigeria vs Pfizer Pharmaceuticals: An Update

Pfizer's atrocious clinical trials in Nigeria are reminiscent of the infamous Tuskegee experiment on African Americans as human guinea pigs...

The Igbo Fallacy

In truth, the gruesome, senseless and depressingly cold murder of a Nigerian of Igbo fount in India, and the ceaseless profusion of crimson Hindustan xenophobic outrages towards Nigerians vivify curious ponderings, somber, sober reflections and unkind truths about the sojourning Igbo...

Nigeria and her intellectual acuity

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The Dishonourable Africans – Part IV

On the eve of departure of the imperial civil servants from Africa, they fitted all the national institutions of politics and of commerce with selected African Yes-men...

Odili Ujubuonu: 60 Years of Magic and Memorable Aesthetics

Odili Ujubuonu is a Renaissance man, that is, he...

Between political naivety and political sophistry…

We have a largely complicit elite class that's just too comfortable and happy with the status quo to be bothered about changing it - only rising up in response to events or people that directly affect or threaten their continued enjoyment...