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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SGF Boss Mustapha’s Amazing Discovery

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Anambra: Who Lost Out Eventually?

There were reports of overwhelming pressure mounted on the Election Petition Tribunal in Awka to cancel the Gubernatorial Election in Anambra and order fresh polls. But this failed because the judges saw it as one excellent way of treading the path of perdition...

These People Sef

When a state, constituency or country is issued a bad leader, we grin and bear it for four interminable years. That needs to change. We need a process whereby bad leaders are kicked out by citizens, with minimal fuss...

Ezu River and the Floating Corpses

On January 19th this year the world was served a horrific photographic menu of scores of human bodies found floating on Ezu River in Amansea community of Anambra State. When the local folks discovered the floating corpses they raised alarm but...

Dan Ocholi – Tribute To My Boss & Brother

The (in)famous ‘Lagos – Ibadan’ press, depending on the...

Ogboru: The Man, Manifesto and Many Mandates

With the Okar coup Ogboru’s name was allegedly mentioned. And the dictatorial military government then swung into sundry actions and virtually all that Ogboru had was made to pass through the drain. Was he battered and shattered?

Of Monstrous Cathedrals and Hungry Congregants

Sometime in 1989, a friend told a story of...

Reflections on Democracy and Good Governance

Change will come when we know true democracy and keep ourselves informed. We have to encourage our families, friends and neighbours to populate the educated camp till the ignorant camp is totally deserted...

Village Boy and the City Woman

As soon as she stepped into the room, all the white men followed her with their eyes. Being a village boy, I had never liked city girls. Besides, my mother had warned me against them: white girls and city girls are not good for a village boy, she said...

Mis-representation of the elected representatives

Nigeria as a nation has been witnessing mis-representation of elected politicians since 29th of May till the present set of representatives that we hope will start the foundation of a new Nigeria...