Miscellaneous

The title of this piece which has nothing to do with the global food crises may as well have been Begging for Bread at Shoprite. Yes, that’s what they make …

I think that the moment we move away from discussing our social, economic and political issues and get into attacking personalities, that we will no longer be any different from …

Within the African continent, contagions of the intellect, mass hysterias and crippling urban legends are common. In one country after another, there are confounding tales of everything…

Sheep is an animal with a challenging intellectual deficit. Have you seen how they cross busy roads? Young minds should aspire to be goats. A goat believes in itself. It …

Superstition, poverty and ignorance accounts for why, many decades after many societies have progressed, the African life is still loaded with primitive passions and preliterate conditions…

What is it that causes the FRSC to spend weeks on end to process issuance and renewal of drivers’ licences?

Child worship and self advertisement among Nigerian parents are definitely on the rise while common sense and good manners are on the decline…

The sudden passing of one of the doyens of legal education and vast array of jurisprudence in Nigeria, Prof. Jadesola Akande came to me as a rude shock…

‘My great-grand parents were taken to Brazil during the slave trade. Today, my family house in Brazil is Abule-Bamgbose in Bambgose Street in Salvador, Bahia. My cousins live there. Brazilians …

It may seem that the provision of infrastructure, particularly affordable and decent housing, security of lives and property, adequate social amenities, etc., are key to satisfying the demands and tastes of …

I urge fellow Nigerians to read the two narratives below and draw their own conclusions as to what manner of persons we have as our leaders in Nigeria…

As I write this, it’s beginning to look like nothing makes sense and would ever make sense anymore. As I write this, it’s becoming difficult every minute to make sense …

Damn it! The white man will continue to dominate and show manifest signs of superiority over other races as long as we lack initiatives and the required wisdom to do …

Is it not safe therefore, gentlemen and ladies, for one to consciously conclude that the whites are indeed more superior than blacks in terms of reasoning power and general comportment?

For quite sometime now Paul has been absent from the pages of NIA and other sites. And quite frankly I miss his style…

In the first week of January 2007 more than a dozen friends asked what my New Year resolutions were going to be. I had none…