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...

Why Do Some Pastors Advise Women To Stay In Abusive Marriages?

Some husbands feel they have god-like authority over their wives and are justified in disciplining them if they refuse to "obey" or "submit" to their authority. In their sick, twisted minds, it's their job to "keep their wives in their places", as ordained by God...

Feminists are haters of Men

I've seen that this feminism of a thing is becoming another religion that is gradually creeping into our clime and many people will be killing each other for it soon...

Let Us Answer The Gay Question In Nigeria With Our Heads

Folks, this homosexual issue is one we have to face squarely. Why are these people the way they are? Does it have a spiritual undertone? Homosexuality has been around for centuries, even in black Africa, before the coming of the whites...

Mass Marriages: What Manner of Alternative Solution?

The wave of mass marrying-off of (poor) women which seems to have become a new fad in some northern states – read Zamfara, Kano and Sokoto states - in Nigeria just mirrors every other form of bullying known to us...

Nigeria’s Retrogressive Anti-Gay Law

This past Wednesday, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan elevated crassness and primitiveness to the highest level imaginable by signing into law a bill banning homosexuality in Nigeria...

The Sign

Why should relationship calamity stop us from loving? We cannot say because we have made wrong choices historically we won’t love. If we continue to do things that some people did that resulted in their demise, why should we not love simply because we or other people have done it in the past and it did not turn out well...

The Homosexual I Know

What this piece calls for is a bit of humanity; the humanity in us that will break the dark covering of violent intolerance of homosexuals in Africa. Homosexuality should not be a taboo subject. It should be out in the open...

How Western Philosophy Ruins Nigerian Marriages

Irrespective of the community where it’s taking place, marriage calls for a big occasion. Singing, merriment and dancing characterise marriage ceremonies in Nigeria...

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Citizens As Journalists

We constantly clamour for change in our society but refuse to accept the fact that age-old dogmas, beliefs and practices may have to give way to new paradigms. Change has only come to societies where the citizens will it...

One Victory, Two Clear Lessons

The Presidency “rigged” the Ekiti election in a very sophisticated way, in a manner that cannot be discerned by the ordinary eye. In his campaign visit to Ekiti State, President Jonathan assured the people of the state of patronage if they voted in the PDP...

Sarkozy: Sweet And Bitter Memories!

France, as one of the principal world powers, official possessor of nuclear weapons, permanent member of the UN Security Council and one of the engine rooms of the European Union, must be seen as wielding enormous influence in the new world order...

Boko Haram: A Nation Under the Grip of Deception (2)

The pattern of attacks is no longer confined to the North-Eastern state of Borno, it has spread to the North West and there had been unsuccessful attempt to spread South ward...

Sanusi Lamido banking sector reform: a two and a half year review

 One of the most controversial chapters in the Sanusi banking reform is his sacking of the managing directors of five banks and replacing them with CBN appointed managers. Many people thought that was the end of Sanusi...

Men Are Like Cars

Men are like cars.  Some days you wake up, enter your car and just drive off. On other days, you cannot help but wonder the point of having a car…

To Click or Not to Click: That is the Question

While everyone may be getting a Smartphone, not everyone is getting smarter. We have convinced ourselves that we have to listen to music all the time. Other people are content with downloading limitless number of applications that they probably won’t use. But since there is enough memory space, it’s okay to download all sorts of junk. We have simply reached a stage where we just keep bouncing endless chat and text messages back and forth with our digital applications...

Fixing Murtala Mohammed “Air-Nightmare”

Nothing best exemplifies the state of Nigeria’s leadership than the dilapidating state of the gateway to the nation, the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja. An airport that sits strategically as not only a possible gateway to Nigeria, but West Africa as well as the rest of the World...

On Your Marks, Get Set…

The fight has not started. When it does, we will all be aware. It will strike like thunder and bring down its actors. We will all be by the sides and watch and cheer…

Nuhu Ribadu's Transmutation

There is no politically discerning Nigerian who has not heard the news. Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the presidential candidate of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011, has defected to the ruling People's Democratic Party...