The ‘eeny, meeny, miny moe’ prophecy
IF you ever played the game tag as a child, you will be familiar with the phrase filled with nonsense-sounding…
Standing with Nigeria’s female IDPs
AS I perused the report further, the indignation I felt grew stronger…there was no comprehending the horrendous happening; it is…
Silence, the fuel of injustice
ABOUT seven decades ago, while speaking to the representatives of the Confessing Church in Frankfurt, Martin Niemöller dropped a ‘seed’…
‘I may belong to the kitchen, if…’
Last week, I entitled my discourse in this column, where does your wife belong? and like ripples widen on the…
Where does your wife belong?
AFTER short derisive laugh, with a look of utter disdain to his left, the most powerful man in Nigeria, the…
Regrets of a patriot
Until 2015, towards the national election that paddled the Ijaw man’s boat home ward and heralded the galloping in of…
Celebrating retrogression
Nigeria is 56 and with the realities confronting her, would it be out of place to ask this: are the…
Look beyond what you see
What we look like through the retina of another homosapien’s optical system as well as the world’s adulations or criticisms…
Convoys of death and terror
TRAVELLING our roads are usually not very pleasant experiences. One of diverse evils could occur — frustrating gridlocks, temporal body…
Change begins with whom?
ON Thursday, September 8, in the Federal Capital Territory, the Federal Government finally launched the “Change Begins with Me’’ campaign,…
Life’s consistent inconsistency
IT has been over a decade but the words come resonating through time like it was yesterday. Emmanuel, the ‘immaculate’…
The police is your friend
IN this country, a phrase that was created with the aim of dissipating the fears and misconceptions of the general…
Blessed are Nigerians in the Diaspora
JUST about a month ago, the finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, while addressing the Senate, used the following words: “Technically, Nigeria…
When in Rome…
I F you ever find yourself anywhere on this planet, where there is no Nigerian, RUN! I had guffawed uncontrollably…
Avarice, the hamartia of Africa’s giant
MY My heart sinks into deeper melancholy and mystical perturbation swallows up my spirit like a landslide every time I…
Our diminishing Nigerianism
AS a little girl, mother told me many tales. I do not mean fables or folklores, but amazingly-soothing stories of…
God will not come down
IT is becoming unarguably irksome and disgusting the way we sit, fold our arms and exclaim ‘God will help us’…
