The UTME in perspective
wITHOUT necessarily sermonizing, I would like to lay a background for today’s discourse from a section of the Old Testament.…
Before that love kills you!
Last year, in the month of May, I wrote the piece titled “Before marriage kills you”. May is here again…
The Grim Reaper’s freekick and Calabar fans
The monumental shock and horror I felt interrupted a pleasant sleep on the night of Thursday, 20 April, 2017. Though…
Nigerians, protect your bank details
I had just finished punching the last word of this week’s initial column and was getting set to dash home…
Isn’t life a boomerang?
Often times, I hear people use the phrase “what goes around comes around” or “what goes up must surely come…
The Ijaw, Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani
CERTAIN recent happenings have made it critically impossible for me to expunge certain putrid memories. Sans a scintilla of doubt,…
Like Kofi’s cedi, like our naira?
Last week, I was struck by nostalgia from some remote period when I basked in the euphoria of being Nigerian.…
Black predators, blacker prey…
The horror, the terror and trauma will not be obliterated in a jiffy. Though the wounds may heal with time,…
Up goes the bare necessities of life
Therefore, the bare necessities of life – food, clothing and housing may someday become luxury in Nigeria if the rate…
Val without ‘boo-boo’ baby
I should never have let him leave. If I had known he would break his promise, I would never have…
America’s Trump, an epitome of ‘talknado’
I am certain that at the sight of today’s headline, my readers who are from regions other than the Niger…
Another tale of police brutality, delayed justice
The police is your friend,” say those words that Nigerians are very familiar with. Pathetic as it sounds, a phrase…
God bless the dead!
In 2015, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said “to forgive terrorists is up to God, but to send them to him…
If not Fulani herdsmen, then who?
One of my greatest gifts is a strong imagination, capable of conjuring scenes and breathing life into book characters. This…
Of Jenifa and the Christmas prophecy
The holy writ admonishes expressly: “Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm.” I may not be the…
2017: The end, a fresh start or another saga?
By the time you read this, we would have been in the year 2017 for 72 hours. I bet it…
So long, 2016!
UNLIKE mortals who die every night but awaken at dawn, 2016 will, momentarily, be gone forever. In a few days’…
If the Mavros never thaw
In July, I met a tall, dark and handsome man. The quintessential chocolate fudge the ladies love. As a woman…
Trash everywhere but Nigerians are hungry
THE austerity currently ravaging our nation is no hallucination…it is whistled by the wind, causing trees to sway in apprehension.…
Good luck to Nigeria’s neglected children
THE children that the society neglects today that are going to be its problem tomorrow. Forget about the high fences…
