Why would you bomb your own neighborhood? Why cause mothers and fathers the grief and anguish of burying their innocent children? Go blow up buildings in Abuja. Go blow up bridges in Lagos. Go cause environmental problems in Kaduna. Go assassinate the head of the oil companies who are safely ensconced in their palatial homes in Lagos and Port Harcourt and elsewhere. Leave our mothers and fathers and daughters and sisters and brothers alone…
Why would you bomb your own neighborhood? Why cause mothers and fathers the grief and anguish of burying their innocent children? Go blow up buildings in Abuja. Go blow up bridges in Lagos. Go cause environmental problems in Kaduna. Go assassinate the head of the oil companies who are safely ensconced in their palatial homes in Lagos and Port Harcourt and elsewhere. Leave our mothers and fathers and daughters and sisters and brothers alone…
I met Pastor Bimbo like many others through her programme, Single and Married. As a newly married couple, my wife and I used to have our breakfast on Sundays with her voice in the background and with time we would catch ourselves mimicking the way she said: “Talk to me!”
Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima interviewed Aladin, Nigerian musician based in Austria. Aladin spoke on the reason for his migration, the reception in Austria, his home coming to Nigeria in August, his Bulgarian wife and three children and the release of his new cd…
Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima interviewed Aladin, Nigerian musician based in Austria. Aladin spoke on the reason for his migration, the reception in Austria, his home coming to Nigeria in August, his Bulgarian wife and three children and the release of his new cd…
Nigerians are in one vein optimistic and on the other cynical. We are one of the most religious yet the most corrupt nation on planet earth. Nigerians are very cynical of their government yet deeply political. In Nigeria, we breathe, sleep and eat politics. Most Nigerians are professional political critics that will cringe on the first sight of a ballot box!
Your teenage son already sees you as that strange man with the funny accent from Africa who just doesn’t understand him. So, don’t make matters worse by buying him a Sony Walkman. That was cool in your day. Get him the Ipod Nano instead. That should work. Be warned though…an Ipod is different from the Ondo cocoa pod you are familiar with…
I am sitting at my computer, transfixed by the images on the internet of the grieving parents and relatives of the over one hundred people that died in Port Harcourt at the weekend in an aeroplane crash. And we are all responsible…
The third term agenda of the current administration has indeed ruffled some distinguished feathers across the nation. From civil society to human rights activist and to some journalists, the congregation has risen in unison to condemn the personification of politics and its attempt to change our lives through the backdoor by the Obasanjo administration and his cronies…
For our brother Governor Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, go, go serve our sentence, we are all thieves! When you return our rusting guns will boom a thousand times for the homecoming of a good son of the soil. Go well, great thief. We shall miss you each time we take a lunch break from the hard work of looting our mothers’ treasures!
If the hunted animal runs in an unexpected manner, an Igbo proverb goes, the hunter should shoot it in an equally unexpected manner. The problem here, however, was that the manner in which this animal had bolted was not only unexpected but unimaginable…