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All of what is happening in the Peoples’ Democratic Party is parallel to the mischief characterised by the British Conservative Party in the United Kingdom immediately after the departure of Mrs. Margaret Thatcher...
Almost every Nigerian of voting age is aware of the atrocities committed by the various military leaders who had unleashed their autocratic reigns on our nation in the past. IBB was just one of them and it will be unfair to single him out for "punishment"...
Modern ifa like the rest of us is not stupid. It instinctively knows who is qualified to be King at a time the town's people no longer financially support their Oba. If you don't have enough money to support yourself as Kabiyesi, don't even go there...
I must confess that I do not always agree with Achebe, especially on his views about Christianity, which like many intellectuals, he sees from a negative and largely misunderstood perspective...
I do not discuss my family because along the years, I have had to determine who is in and who stays out. I come from one of those families with countless children and a string of wives that surprise is a tool when a particular woman escaped the bedspread of the child making factory room...
A wife gets home to her home in Iyana Ipaja, and makes to prepare a special meal of white rice with fresh fish stew for her husband. It is their wedding anniversary! She has even bought a bottle of red wine. Soon he comes in looking positively shattered…he has just been fired...
Nigerians have not yet mentally embraced the notion of Representative Democracy. The Politicians are still revered as some ‘big men’ who do the people a favor when they are around...
Nigeria has become such a country that glorifies graft and celebrates ill-gotten wealth that “public service” has become an oxymoron, a blatant paradox when viewed against the warped tapestry of our national life...
"Papa Nkiru, agaghim ekwe nkea. Nkiru must finish her secondary school before she gets married. Nkechi got married like that, and now you want Nkiru to follow suit..."
The recurring and unwarranted diplomatic fireworks were obviously sparked again, by South Africa, otherwise called the Rainbow Nation, when it repatriated 125 Nigerians upon landing in Johannesburg weeks ago. For all intents and purposes, the fresh affront on Nigeria was infuriating, unprovoked...
Please don’t get me wrong, I am not going to let Nigeria kill me. I am just sad and scared because idiots are getting away with murder, literarily. I am scared because I might die outside Nigeria, with my family scattered all over the world...
Two young men leap into the rectangular hole hewn out of the red earth to receive the white coffin that housed the bodily remains of my beloved aunt. As family members pay her final respects, the young men shovel heaps of red earth to cover the glistening white coffin till it's shut out of our view forever...
You've been passing yourself of as an intellectual busybody, venturing opinion on this and that, and on matters that sometimes do not concern you. You rub politicians' noses with your satire and hope to get away with it.And then out of the blues, CNN invites you to come and discuss the matter...
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