Miscellaneous

A Hospital For Chima Ubani

In this sad season in Nigeria I got filled with so much joy when the news reached my end that Abia State Governor, Dr...

The Insult That Led to the Creation of Osun State

Osun State was created thirty-five years ago, but what if I told you the state was born, indirectly, from an insult. Yes, really. In 1945, Chief...

Nigerian Style Of Football

We played the game. It entailed any number of men or women running about kicking any roundish object. We had no special name for...

Nigerians in United Kingdom Endorse Buhari for President

(NOTE: The following is an unedited press release from the Diaspora For Buhari Project-UK; For release on Tuesday, 27 January 2015)   PRESS RELEASE: Nigerians in...

BOSAS International Law Bureau vs OPEC

Whereas Minister Allison Madueke is very well-known to OPEC and the international oil producing countries as a knowledgeable technocrat, the OPEC, it is reported, refused to appoint her to the post she was recommended to fill by the Federal Government of Nigeria on the discriminatory basis that she is a woman...

World, Laughers and Criers

The world we are living in is, indeed, a stage that is characterized by the good, bad and ugly. These three words were once my motto till I changed them to World, Laughers and Criers with many reasons...

Feminism Now Looks Like Where Women Are Groomed Into Indiscipline

That was what feminism was supposed to be: equity. But regrettably, instead of equity, there is the lecture for equality...

A prayer for Mustapha Amego

To many who still remember him, he is the "funky mallam". Pony tailed, long haired 6 footer who rocked the Nigerian music scene in the 80s and 90s. He anchored the soul train like music show which aired on Sundays for so long and taped at the then Lords night club in Maryland, Lagos...

Letter to a Facebook girlfriend

My Dear, I have avoided treating leprosy with the prescription for malaria...

Further Discussions on the Future of Africa (2)

The Bradford Initiative on the future of Africa Collective agreed during the week-long Seminar on the future of Africa, that African concerns have gone beyond the potency of the written word, of poetry, banal literary musings, drama, songs and incantations...

International Seminar on the Future of Africa the New World Economic Order

The Seminar recommended that courses in International Law and Diplomacy should be held  at the Bradford Initiative Seminar Room, to  prepare University students for rigorous academic pursuit...

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Tony Anenih: An Analysis

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Stanley Macebuh: Enemy of ‘Junkola’ Journalism

Stanley Macebuh may have projected his liberal fantasies in most of his journalism, but there was no obfuscatory logorrhea and gobbedy-gook weasel verbiage that may dethrone reason. He was the apostle of lucidity and a purifier of public intellection...

Going to Meet Black America (2)

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Marriage Breakers

If care is not taken, immediately after saying "Yes! I do", you begin to witness the Gorilla in your partner gradually manifesting...

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and his Witch-hunting Brigade

It will be difficult, really difficult, to find thirty Nigerians in public service over the age of thirty with clean hands and clear conscience. Public service has now become the safest and surest way to get rich...