Travel & Leisure

Beyond the barrel: The tourism imperative (2)

According to the World Tourism Organization, tourism generates over $1 trillion in exports annually, creating millions of jobs and stimulating local economies. Be that...

Beyond the barrel: The tourism imperative (1)

Nigeria is at the moment in a precarious position, teetering like a heavy toddler due to the instability of its monocrop economy. The country’s...

Princewills Trust: Second Batch Winners set to hit Dubai

Winners of the 2022 edition of the Princewills Trust Vision and Success Opportunity Challenge have just departed for a one-week all-expense-paid Bootcamp and tour...

Going to Bob Marley’s Country

It was for me a dream fulfilled when my family and I arrived in Montego Bay, Jamaica on August 17 for a weeklong vacation. Ever since my secondary school days, I had sustained an endearing long distance relationship with that Caribbean island nation...

Casalinda: Where Creativity Meets Culture

Casalinda offers a serene environment where culture and excellence meet in an African ambience...

Borne on Dis-virgined Eagle's Wings

The Igbo woman whose prayer was most dramatic on the flight told me how she had a dream while in China the previous day. The melodrama involved her pastor who forcefully restrained her from entering a particular flight in the dream and after the exchange, she had woken up and the nightmarish scare nudged her to pray...

In A Lighter Mood: City of Jos As A Holiday Resort

This is an attempt at packaging, re-packaging, branding and re-branding the city of Jos after the last disturbance involving the indigenes and the Hausa/Fulani settlers that left scores of people dead and property destroyed...

A Creative Experience of Lagos

To define Lagos would be to define nothing, just the surreal dream of flexibility. To write about Lagos is to write about nothing in particular. Not the people, because the people are in flight...

The Magic of Ikeji Festival

For anyone who has witnessed it, ikeji is an awesome carnival filled with pulsating rhythms, and colourful performances. No other festival provides the same array of masquerades, enchanted participants and excited spectators...

Fellow 'Nigerians,' Let Us Drink From This Cup

How come a transporter refuses to refund an unused fare? The most painful aspect is that the money involved is about $400, too much for a poor teacher like me to lose...

The Lagos In Lagos

Lagos has fallen to the iron-grip of men of the underworld. Hardly a day passes without them striking at different locations, heavily armed, visiting banks and other money-spinning corporate concerns...

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Periscoping the Nigerian Mentality

Nobody is willing to stand tall and question the source of the wealth of the overnight money-bags who are now being heralded. The demise of the traditional policing system is not helpful either...

700 Days in Office: “Wetin Gov. Fashola Dey Do Self?”

Majority of the people do not see government property as theirs. Otherwise why will people willfully damage public property so callously? They do not even know that these are procured with taxes collected from them...

Criticizing The Critics

Election is fast approaching. I have read about those who want to rule the country. All I've seen so far are personalities and all that people are supporting are personalities. I did not see anyone addressing the issues...

Requiem For A Compatriot And The Sorrows Of Being A Nigerian: Akinyemi Akinpelu (1971 – 2005)

This piece would serve its aim if it succeeds in enlightening our brothers and sisters who are desperately trying to sneak out of the hell-hole called Nigeria...

Socialism or Welfare Reconstruction For Nigeria?

To avoid perhaps the impending apocalyptic prediction by the US intelligence of “Nigeria as a failed state”, I have proposed that the country should return to its former regional formation...

Yar’Adua: See What the Cabal Has Done!

The death of any President, a country’s number one citizen is a watershed in the life of any nation. This rare but sometimes inevitable occurrence in the life of a nation often evokes a deep sense of loss and a prolonged period national mourning...

Will Edo State Education Survive Godwin Obaseki?

In all relevant discussions regarding the development or underdevelopment...

3-Hours With Stella Damasus-Aboderin (2)

Long before Jaiye Aboderin, her late husband, passed on suddenly in 2004, Nigerian movie star actress and singer, Stella Damasus-Aboderin had been the subject of gossips, some of which were very damaging. But through all of this, Stella maintained a silence almost as thick as a wall. Not anymore…

Inyang, Don’t Fight…

My father is away at the warfront. Each time there is news of fresh casualties, my mother's heart tumbles. So many of her friends have been widowed...

Free at last? Nigerian Artifacts may finally return home

Debunking persistent myths and showcasing that Africans had developed...