Let me begin this intervention by making a solemn confession: by the time the great idea of Biafra was mooted and its attempted actualisation militarily aborted I was not yet…
If you’re an enlightened Nigerian but don’t know who Chuma Nwokolo is, you should be sorry. He’s one of the most engaging people I have ever met in person, a…
Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian literary legend, has just released his latest book in which he dealt with many lies and liars that inhabit the geographical entity called Nigeria. Entitled…
A wise man with a wide following was once asked by a devotee of his teachings to show him an apple from Paradise. A fruit, which he imagined in his…
The Karma of justice has taken up permanent residence in the house of those who contributed to the Somalization of some Nigerian states in the last general election. The recent…
Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with a young man who accused me of exhibiting “sentiments” and “self-interest” in my column titled “Buhari and the Syndrome…
Actually, I got this title from a friend whose close relative is a Customs officer. He would list all the atrocities of Customs officers in the presence of the close…
If you are in Nigeria and you have not done this before, try and do it right away. Just open a Nigerian newspaper near you. Go through its pages to…
It is almost six months, half a year, since your administration assumed the mantle of office we’ve waited in bated breath for change that we were promised, and have watched…
Reports reaching us from my Lagos is clear and unanimous: The honeymoon period between the people of Lagos state and our newly elected Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode is over. The…
Recently, most of the newspapers reported the feud between the Deji of Akure, Aladelusi Aladetoyinbo, and Eze Ndigbo in Akure, Gregory Iloehika, over claims of a plan by Aladetoyinbo to…