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...

Where Love Has Gone

At some point it was even rumoured that Okey was possessed, and that he belonged to a secret money cult at whose insistence he was sleeping with the housemaids...

When A Woman Makes The First Move…

It does not happen in Lagos everyday like it does in other parts of the world, where it is perfectly normal if a lady makes the first move...

Nigerian Men and their Secret Sons

How does it feel meeting a father that has never been there for you? How does it feel knowing that you have a brother or sister you have never met? How does it feel realizing that after decades of marriage you do not know everything about a man you call husband?

When The Pendulum Swings

We as women are quick to talk about all the bad and wrong things men do; especially Nigerian men.  Nigerian men are not romantic, Nigerian men are not sensitive, Nigerian men are flirts and cheats, Nigerian men are heart breakers and liars...

Between Women And Men

We all know how far Nigerian men would have all gotten in life if not for the devilish ways that our women have tempted us and diverted our attention away from pursuing more important matters aided by their bottom power...

Imprudent Heifers

I cannot count how many times I have heard Nigerian men complaining about how Nigerian women have suddenly become “smart” because they have left Nigeria.  While some of what they say is only due to their inability to handle a little independence in favor of the woman, the rest of what they say is actually true...

Truth about African Relationships: Beyond the Rhetoric

Nigerian women in Diaspora love Nigerian men. I can attest to this. They are fiercely protective of us, and they take good care of us too. Woe betides any African man that will deny this...

Unromantic Nigerian Men and “their” Women

Naija women will settle any day for a corrupt 419er with no drop of romance than a hard working night soil man with his eyes full of love. Is it not true that the latest craze among our American based Naija girls is to rush home after landing their Ivy league masters degree to get hooked up into the family of one of the sons of our big men...

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God Is With You

I now recognize that truly circumstances only act to make us forget that God had promised to be with us always. We often get consumed as well as discomfited by the events happening around us...

July 29 1966 On My Mind: Did General Aguyi-Ironsi Deserve To Die?

PART ONE INTRODUCTON On the fiftieth remembrance of Nigeria’s second coup...

Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua: Transitioning from Amnesty to Paradise

Before I get to the subject of this letter, let me start by saying a very big thank you to you for the revolutionary decision you have taken to transfer ten percent of the proceeds of the joint venture partnership between the central government and the oil companies to the oil-bearing communities...

Bill Gates, AI and returned Nigerian Loot

Last month, March, a self-driving SUV knocked down and...

Poverty Relief: More Programs, More Pains

Government should not presume that they know what will benefit the poor better than the poor themselves. When a program has been failing each time it is attempted, the ideal thing to do would be to study the past attempts to see where the mistakes lies…

What Makes A Married Man ‘Responsible’?

There are many reasons why we should adjust this thinking that the married fella is an absolutely responsible person or that being married is a prerequisite for somebody to be adjudged as 'responsible'

Mutallab Terrorist Incident as a Teachable Moment for Nigerians

The failed attempt by Umaru Farouk Abdul Mutallab to bomb United Airlines flight 253 out of the air and the aftermath have managed to reminde those who pretend to be temporary citizens of Nigeria that they are in fact still Nigerians...

Darkness In Ndigbo’s Political Sight

Ndigbo and their areas play a very innermost role geographically in Nigeria’s affairs, no matter the political shift of this fact to any region of the country to own the ownership of commerce and industry...

Iyabo Obasanjo Is Not Guilty, We Are

It is common these days to find a politician or civil servant who goes to church or the mosque everyday to pray to God or Allah, yet when they get to the office on Monday morning, all that is in their heads is how to misappropriate or embezzle money...

Cavalcades Of Gunners In Mauritania

How justified is decrying a coup against a President that heads an executive Council, which only marks time; waiting for the appropriate time to be conferred with a vote of no confidence?