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...

Black Women, White Men and the Question of Marriage

Insofar as sub-Saharan African women are concerned, they generally do not look or feel comfortable or secured in the company of White men. It is as if they are not completely into the relationship...

She’s Just Not That Into You…

For every time I have been single and toyed with the possibility of being in a relationship, especially in the driest of seasons when there was just no eligible bachelor on the scene, there was always the one guy in the least that I just wasn’t into...

He’s Just Not That Into You…

Sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending; we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell the ones who want us from the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave...

In A Lighter Mood: What Is An Ideal Marriage?

In the cause of studying and understanding relationships, I have often told ladies to go for defined relationship. What the heck do I mean? Well, If a man approaches you and says he wants a relationship with you, tell the man to define that relationship and its nature...

The Blogs that Nigerian Women Write…

If you see any naija man out there, walking and gallivanting around as if he is king, tell him he is a dead man walking. In fact, if he tells you he rules the world - tell him to shut up!

Facebook: The 9th Planet

Why do people leave false compliments on Facebook?  Why tell a girl who obviously looks like she has just been used for a money ritual that she looks edible?  Edible to whom?  Vultures?  A pack of wild animals?  A ferocious beast?

Reflections on “Serial Marriage” and “Polygyny”

When I came into the UK about 8 years ago, advisers - and they are many, very cunning, comical Nigerians, full of filthy lies - told me that marriage here is 50-50, the man brings 50%, the woman, 50%...

My Sweet 16-Year Old Valentine

Her eyes met mine and didn't blink out of shyness and rather than look down like other damsels, she smiled gaily at me. Not sure I returned her smile but she innocently giggled at the sight of me. How could I flirt with an under aged...

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Window Into Kalu’s Passion for Education

By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba  Between the demands of office as Deputy...

Sefi Atta: Something Good Comes to Nigerian literature

Writers are not protected from discrimination. When I worked as an accountant I dealt with discrimination and I’m still dealing with it now. It’s funny, looking back from my first writing class, it feels like I’ve been on one long audition, standing before an audience who is yelling, What have you got? Go on, tell us an African story!

Makwerekwere: Black South Africa’s Instant-Mix Kaffirs?

“Oh, I love your accent. It’s awesome. Where is that from?”
“Nigeria.”
“Nigeria? You mean Nicaragua?”

Before Ali Baba and Okey Bakassi, there was John Chukwu

I should have been a comedian. Poetry is poverty. Comedy...

Nigerian society and Our Moral Dilemma

We face a serious moral dilemma that pervades all sectors of our national life. It appears that our sense of wrong and right has blurred to the extent that we cannot differentiate between the two...

Bailouts Rescues Worldwide, But How About Africa?

Now that greed and corruption of a few for the benefit of a few have wrought destruction of global magnitude, it is now the case that there is an onset of selective bailouts and rescues of some nations and their banks, financial institutions and their national economies...

How misuse of 13% Derivation Affects Isoko

I was in Gombe in November 2022 when the...

Enugu: The Otiosity Of Authority

Aside the huge security challenges Nigeria is faced with a leadership conundrum decades old, something that makes it difficult for her to rise to the top. When it comes to politics our politicians are bad examples...

Kalu, Ohakim, Orji and Carnival of Misery

Ohakim did not do any better during his reign in Imo State. This was not caused by Kalu, but by his gluttonous and ill-fated perceived approach to politics and governance...

FRSC and the Yorkshire Ripper

At 20, new ideas and “new” strategies may be brought up to facilitate the fast-tracking of the FRSC for greater efficiency in the performance of its core duties...