Anike’s Diary

The provisions of the Marriage Property act 1882 being a Statute of General Application formed the fulcrum of a judgment delivered per Abimbola Munta J., Chief Judge of the Oyo State Judiciary early this month in a property suit involving a…

IT was on a group on a social platform that a lady made a statement that women who are smart are always challenged at getting men who would marry them. The statement generated several views with the backlash coming mostly from fellow women.…

BEFORE sports put (football) in that category, religious or tribal sentiments, the major thing that divides us and bares us to our barest most basic primal and feral minimum is politics. I saw the inner core of many people exposed in the…

The Nigeria Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, who is the senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kwara  state, is currently in early defeat, as Dr Ibrahim  Oloriegbe, the candidate of the All Progressives…

I do not think it was the postponement of the elections earlier scheduled to hold on 16th February, 2019, precisely last week Saturday, that shocked Nigerians I think it was the audacity of cancelling it right in the wee hours of the…

TIMES like this make me wish feverishly that Nigeria operates a two-party system like the United State does. You are either in one party or the other. True that it restricts multiplicity of choices but yet it entrenches structure,…

I was at the mall a few weeks back for a little shopping. As I walked from aisle to aisle browsing at the items for sale, I suddenly stumbled upon a scene. There was a child throwing a serious tantrum. She was about six years old and giving…

THE position of judgeship in its originality is synonymous with integrity. It is also synonymous with decorum, with diligence, with zero tolerance for corruption. An ideally incorruptible position. The office is not one that I have ever…

In behavioural patterns of humans, there have been cases of strange fetishes displayed by our race. Being fetish for something is to have a kind of obsession for that thing. For instance, some people are shoe fetishes and can spend lavishly…

It’s a New Year and it naturally comes with so many new resolutions that ends up often times not getting fulfilled. I stopped making resolutions very many years ago and simply see a new year as a continuation of the previous one and so I…