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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Biafra, the Ostrich Mentality and Nigeria’s Tragedy

There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I must do so again—that Nigeria’s refusal to confront and address the sore of the Biafran War is the chief reason no nation has been able to materialize out of the space called Nigeria...

Amaechi’s Ruthless Tax

It is good for the residents of a given society to pay their taxes, but the authorities concerned with the management of the people must make sure that the people’s taxes are promptly and judiciously utilized...

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World, Laughers and Criers

The world we are living in is, indeed, a stage that is characterized by the good, bad and ugly. These three words were once my motto till I changed them to World, Laughers and Criers with many reasons...

Empowering Nigerian Professionals To Turn Around The Economy

Why do we allow half-baked British, American, Indian, Chinese, French or other foreign nationals into Nigeria as 'international consultants' who are hired by the multinationals, or in some cases by the Nigerian government, and automatically the status of 'expatriate' is bestowed on them?

Democracy and Corruption

Most discerning persons are aware of the pervading influence of corruption in our polity.  In our experimentation with government military or civilian, corruption has been prevalent.  This corruption is often manifested by nepotism...

A State Sired By Racism

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Florence Ita-Giwa: What Next?

As I look at 2007 and beyond, I try hard to locate Ita-Giwa’s likely next bus stop in the whole power set-up, that is, the next centre of power from where she would throw her weight and influence...

Thrillers Make The World Go Hip

Writers of thrillers are the richest authors all over...

Yar’Adua: Between the Rule of Law and Public Sentiment

That President Umaru Yar’Adua is presently unhappy with the Nigerian Judiciary is not in doubt...