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...

Nigerian Women: Can We Have It All?

Recently, I read 2 articles by 2 top execs in the U.S. saying it is impossible for women to have it all citing examples of women leaving the workforce in pursuit of a family. Growing up in Nigeria it seemed our mothers could do it easily and at the end I had a new found appreciation for our mothers...

All the Yak About Homosexuality…

Now some people are not wired the same way we are. For them, and unfortunately, their parentage may have been responsible for their being born with irregular mental and sometimes physical and emotional morphology...

Women! You don't need a boyfriend!

A woman in her twenties is ripe for marriage from all indications, but it never ceases to amaze me that despite this fact you still find such women talk of boyfriends instead of husbands. They pray to have boyfriends...

Who Wins The Struggle For Marriage Equality?

Once upon a time, slavery, segregation, separate but equal system of governance, anti-miscegenation and anti-abortion were all legally protected. Today, they are all legally proscribed.  Will gay marriage make the list of protection or proscription? Only June will tell...

Violence against Women in Nigeria…. Myth or Fact?

Globally, 603 million women live in countries where domestic violence is not yet considered a crime. Up to 70% of women report having experienced physical and/or sexual violence at some point. Over 60 million girls worldwide are child brides married before 18...

Gender Inequality; Western Civilization, and the Future We Never Bargained For

Traditionally, people tend to grapple with the concept of gender inequality as it concerns the man's attempt at lording it over women...

Love That Isn’t Taken Seriously

I knew this powerful woman through e-mail correspondence and later, we connected on Facebook. She is a woman of substance, and a Christian who attends church...

Battle over who controls the naira power

Appreciating his immense efforts in leapfrogging our financial sector will give Sanusi the courage to bring more revolutionary changes to our banking industry as his ongoing cashless policy is no longer catching up with the West but fast beating them in the race they started before us...

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The Adedibu Albatross Hanging on Alao-Akala’s Neck

Ibadan belongs to all of us. But too many of us have sat on our hands for too long while Baba Adedibu and his goons literally rode roughshod over parts of Ibadan, maiming people, destroying properties and holding the city hostage...

4000 Dead: A Grim Milestone One Moment

Let us wait for John McCain to remind us of the altruistic notion of squandering a quarter of a trillion Dollars every year on a nation filled up with certain groups that loathe our civilization so much but yet at war with one another; while our schools decay, our bridges crumble and our homes are seized by failing banks...

Bleeding Heart: Bahamas

When I visit the West Indies or the Island Nations of the Caribbean, I meet people who are clearly my long-lost cousins, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and all other members of my extended African family of yesteryears...

NAFDAC and Its Numbers

On a daily basis, Nigerians are faced with the unnecessary task of deciding which one is authentic among the ever growing, yet inexhaustible list of drugs for different ailments...

Is Enough Really Enough?

The crowd of Young People had gathered at Eagles Square and with placards they chanted "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" and marched towards the National Assembly Complex but they were cordoned off by fierce-looking Policemen...

Nigerian and American National Security

The Americans have showed Nigerians and the rest of the world in their dealings with a Chinese oil company, that American oil companies represent American national interests and we, as Nigerians, must be awake to our national security interests as well!

Is Obama Skittish About New York Democrats or Just Black Democrats?

President Obama's presence and occupancy of the American presidency, and tenancy in the White House, is not, and cannot be seen as mutually exclusive or contradictory, in terms, with the aspirations to political positions by other African Americans...

Afromatics III: Mentality Shift

We shall overcome our common challenges only when we believe deep within ourselves that we have the solutions to our problems. It is that unique trait of the human animal to bend the external environment to his or her will that makes it possible to live a civilized life...

All Said, Why Should I Vote Out Buhari

As 2019 approaches, those who brought Nigeria to its...

Time To Probe Nigeria's $12bn Debt Repayment

With the return of democracy in 1999 it became obvious to those looting the country's economy using so called national debts that it wouldn't take long before Nigerians began to demand explanations for the country's debts...