Miscellaneous

Fellow countrymen and women, let’s take a trip to a party. Biko, I don’t mean a party like the alphabet soup you have in Nigeria known as APC or PDP …

I was out of town last Saturday when a sudden phone call shattered my plans for the weekend. My co-tenant informed me of a shocking rent hike by a staggering …

The old Lagos of the yellow molue bus is the Lagos of my adoration. It’s not in my constitution to make so much mouth in celebration of modern gizmos such …

Mr. President has done well for our country. Before he came to power, the country was disingenuously gravitating towards fascism, the type that would make Italian Benito Mussolini turn green …

In an era where African leaders are often seen as mere puppets of Western interests, Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré is charting a radically different course. At just 36 years …

Nigeria’s traditional religious institutions are under siege—not from outsiders, but from within. The disturbing surge in ritual killings has cast a dark shadow over the reputation of genuine traditionalists, as …

By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba Amidst the nightmare that daily life has become for majority of Nigerians, oases of personal and group example continue to come to light here and there. We …

Shortly after his election as president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu announced that he had suspended payments on fuel subsidies. Once that announcement was made, cost of living in Nigeria reached …

I have been in more deadly dangers in my journalistic travails than a suicide bomber. When I look back, I can only wonder and laugh that I am still here …

Identifying squalid conditions in any society consistently is a humanitarian job that deserves divine compensation. Such conditions could be in the corridors of power, public service, social interaction, or collective …

As Christmas dawns across Nigeria, the warmth and unity of the season have been replaced by cold reality and despair. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, inflation has soared …

A boon companion has just taken me to Onitsha, the city on the bank of the River Niger in Anambra State, and the only matter on my mind is the …

Nothing divides Nigerians like religion, but I have it on good account that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who prefers Orisha to Christianity and Islam turned out the saving grace of …

The six-month jail term of popular cross-dresser Idris Okuneye, better known as Bobrisky, continues to stir conversation among Nigerians. What began as a legal case has since morphed into a …

“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”    – Frank A. Clark. Tomorrow, Sunday, June 16, is ‘Father’s …

Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation on Tuesday, May 28, said that children have the potential to be great and achieve their highest dreams. The Executive Director, CEF, Mrs. Helen Egbe, said this …