Without mincing words, the monster in question is Evangelist Helen Ukpabio, the founder of Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, Nigeria. Helen has remained defiant even in the face of national and international condemnation of her tainted and psychotic teachings…
Ogbonnaya Onovo is now a star. He’s one of the few Nigerians who have had the privilege of enjoying national support, sympathy and yes, having the entire nation fight for him to get to the position he wanted…
This week, I had a taste our gender neglect bitter medicine, and this pushed my hand to publicly gripe about this gender disparity issue against women in the provision of public toilets…
Married men and unmarried women have very few things in common; but they do share an unusual commonality, especially when examined against the background of Nigerians in America…
Mr. Dafaranos and his wife were at the reception area of Transcorp Hilton in Abuja on July 11 when the wife found a wristwatch, which a client of the hotel forgot while checking out. She refused to hand over the wristwatch to the security personnel on duty at the reception who wanted to keep it for the owner…
I come from an old Lagos family but have been absent long enough to be able to observe the city with relative objectivity which allows me to offer sensible information to the clear headed smart traveler. The fact is Lagos is “big city” and an expensive city at that. Think New York or Tokyo when you think of the cost of things in Lagos…
Geniuses have no time for sanity. They prefer ideas to normality. They are not of us. They are just en route since they do not belong here. While others are fighting for lands and possessions to stake their claim on earth, geniuses are fighting gravity to capture the skies…
The evening of Sunday 26th July 2009 witnessed serious, soul searching and no-holds-barred straight talk about the hip hop genre of Nigeria’s music industry. The first and the much hyped Nigerian Hip Hop Conference pioneered by the Committee for Relevant Arts lived up to its billing…
What do you have against education, after all Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna himself, started Ahmadu Bello University cleverly named after him? He did not miss a beat and responded immediately: “That fellow was misguided…”
This is the story of how three sons of the soil helped to impoverish their state. This is the story of how three Ijaw governors – Alamieyeseigha, Goodluck Jonathan and Timpre Sylva – looted the Bayelsa treasury. This is the story of how three men made a mess of their people’s fortune…
Welcome to Nigeria, a country no one wishes to slave or die for. Nigeria is like a collapsing House, cordoned off by the Ruling/Eating Class, who are busy day and night carting away the much they could before it goes down…