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...

The Guardian, Jerry Gana and August 14, 1994

The day was February 27, 1983 A.D. While the informed populace writhed in pain for in-depth reporting; a paper caught the mood, went into research, put resources together and ventured out.  We are referring to The Guardian...

Anthony Enahoro: Icon of Yoruba ‘Ponbele’ (1)

'Ponbele', to those who are yet to catch the radical fire, is the art of speaking your native-born language without dilution of English language. Simply put: speak Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, Edo, Igala and Efik in such a simplistically raw mode as to create cultural utopia that shames the old imposition of English language...

And ‘Obama’ Died

On Xmas day, I play host to Labi, Quadri, Samson, Ahmed and Farooq. Each sailed away from my kitchen to the dining table with a steaming plate of rice, chicken and a glass of chilled palm wine...

Word, as bond of Humankind

What Change are you bringing to your society with Words?

2011: Law and Morality in Nigeria

Law is the most potent instrument of class struggle and because laws are made by the ruling class in order to solidify their class position in society, the legislative organs  of the state  are dominated by powerful dominant groups.

Ode and Salute to Engineers and Engineering!

At first, the engineers made the wheel and since then, the wheel has turned the world. Engineers are among the thinking people in the world. Unlike ambitious politicians, who make the wrong noises, the Engineers move assuredly from the drawing board to the site...

Becoming A Responsible, Confident And Safe Driver

Driving is a serious responsibility, with physical and mental abilities impacting on the driving activities of a driver. It is more than moving a vehicle and knowing how to use the accelerator, brake pedals and steering wheel...

I Am The Son Of A Woman Wrapper

With my bum facing heaven while I lay on the floor, Papa gave me six strokes of the cane that made sitting unbearable on the wooden bench in my classroom at the Primary School in my village the nest day...

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Get It! Buhari Will Not Restructure Nigeria!

By May this year, the PROTRON, President of the...

Nigeria – The Nation That No One Loves

As the prices of oil edges to $70 per barrel, we have the capacity to compel America to re-negotiate their national feeling for us, to re-align our options in a calculation that experts have long identified as the next gulf...

EFCC: The Next Level

Much has been written about the selective investigation & prosecution of the EFCC. Some have openly canvassed that Ribadu is a tool in the hand of the current President being used vindictively against the enemies of President Obasanjo...

Nigeria as one open toilet

If you want to gauge how badly Nigerians have been animalized, then pay attention to how, and where, many of them defecate. Just recently, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported that 33 million Nigerians have no access to decent toilets...

The Rapture 5: Manifestation of the Sons of God

Since the days of John the Baptist there is a mammoth holy struggle, a surge to get into the Kingdom of God. True: Many are called and so there is a spiritual traffic. And also true: Few shall be chosen. It is a race with terms that qualifies or disqualifies...

Doyin Okupe: A Nigerian Original

With the death on Monday, March 7, of Dr...

U.S Foreign Policy and the Niger Delta Conflict

A critical examination of America’s foreign policy in the last two decades proves she is concerned with environment issues and with matters dealing with social dislocations, international health challenges and uncontrollable migration that are likely to constrict its resources...

Ogoni Struggle and the Nonchalant Nigeria

And to the extent that the Ogoni story is still today kept on the backburner by the three warring giant elephants is enough proof that interests of ethnic minorities in Nigeria are still peripheral...

The Roar of A Lame Lion (1)

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It flourishes because all the survival indices have been submerged in the cesspool of rapacious government fiefdom, and lofty but shoddily implemented policies...

Dele Giwa’s Assassination: 37 Years After

“Death is…the absence of presence…the endless time of never...