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...

Oju Elegba

What has evolved to become a main stay, a household name, and a popular town in Nigeria, is not without its roots...

Tales from the ‘Jungle’

“We are just living in a jungle” Bayo said as we drove through the stadium flyover underpass on our way to Adeniran Ogunsanya Street in the Surulere area. He has been driving taxis in Lagos for about 18 years and according to him has seen it all...

Southbound To The Sunshine State!

During the first week of summer when hotel accommodations were a tad more affordable, we loaded the Minivan and headed South to the sunshine state to revisit some of our old stomping grounds. Tampa! Fort Myers! Naples! Fort Lauderdale! Miami! Orlando! Ready or not, here we come!

Southbound To The Sunshine State!

During the first week of summer when hotel accommodations were a tad more affordable, we loaded the Minivan and headed South to the sunshine state to revisit some of our old stomping grounds. Tampa! Fort Myers! Naples! Fort Lauderdale! Miami! Orlando! Ready or not, here we come!

Nigerian Dreams and Nightmares

I blame cable television and general misinformation for the rampant myth in Nigeria that all Americans are wealthy. That African American men all walk around in yards of clothing rapping to themselves about drugs, women and guns...

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Mama…Put!

To the initiated, mechanic workshops and mama-put joints have an everlasting relationship. Food connoisseurs like me would tell you that the best foods in the world are eaten at mechanic workshops, and in such other places where good food does not necessarily have to cost your life...

PDP, APC Or Nigerians: Who Really Holds The Power?

In a political season where betrayals have become the...

Anthony Enahoro: Icon of Yoruba ‘Ponbele’ (1)

'Ponbele', to those who are yet to catch the radical fire, is the art of speaking your native-born language without dilution of English language. Simply put: speak Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, Edo, Igala and Efik in such a simplistically raw mode as to create cultural utopia that shames the old imposition of English language...

Nigeria: The High Cost Of Neglect

Why is Nigeria incapable of purchasing the requisite equipment for attending to emergencies like the recent plane crash? Why would a whole nation put all its hope in a private company called Julius Berger? Why is this country perennially helpless in virtually everything? Is there any person at all somewhere planning and directing the usually bungled affairs of this failed state?

And it Came to Pass!

And it came to pass that there was great rejoicing over the solomonic wisdom of Iborilech, son of Ahimelech the Jebusite. And Moloch Yaddie said unto Iborilech: “verily verily I say unto thee, today you will be with me in my Paradise on the Rock”. And it came to pass that Beelzebub granted unto Moloch Yaddie and his children their request of a heavier yoke...

My Debt to Nigeria’s Two Literary Giants

Two years ago, I drove from my home in central Connecticut to the quiescent country precincts of Annandale-on-Hudson to visit author Chinua Achebe, whose novel Things Fall Apart was enjoying a cheery 50th anniversary...

Change Catalysts In Pursuit Of a New Nigeria

Change in the Nigerian context has always been an interesting discourse, bearing in mind the fact that the nation’s history is filled with very many experiences that remain talking points till date...

Bola Tinubu’s Tactics to Destroy Democracy

There are convincing indicators that Nigeria’s president, Mr Bola...

From Yahoo Yahoo to Yahoo Plus

Nigeria’s social dilemma is money. We ruminate endlessly on how, when and where to get it. We place far more value on material success than cultural and human values...

Sowore: When Tomorrow is too far!

Omoyele Sowore must remember Et tu brute! As he...