It was close to midnight a few weeks ago when we landed in Lagos. I was scheduled to be in Ilesha for a workshop on security the next morning. My driver had been waiting at […]
Nigeria recently celebrated 20 years of uninterrupted democracy. As usual, it was a time for sober reflections on the journey that started in 1999. Even as we celebrated, we forgot that there were events that […]
Glowing tributes and encomiums must never be denied Nigerian leaders of all shades in the early phase of our struggle for freedom, and particularly, for the resistance they mustered against slave trade and colonial domination. […]
The drama began on Saturday evening. Not so evening that you couldn’t recognise your neighbour at a twenty yard distance. The following Sunday was the rehearsal for the harvest for the church. The reason for […]
This week, I was prepared to write on one of those ‘national topics’ as we often do when I received a post on ‘whether Ondo State is jinxed,’ forwarded by one of my big brothers, […]
“There is nothing wrong with using bleaching cream. I love to be light skinned, and I changed my complexion. “I started using skin white cream at the early stage, but it was not effective on […]
While Nigeria continues to demonstrate a pathetic inability or unwillingness (or both) to transcend such an outdated and debilitating discussion like the refusal of farmers to allow the conversion of their farms to “grazing routes” […]
The title of this essay should reverberate among people who had become adults around 1984. I don’t belong to that age bracket, but the precocious in my generation would remember the statement “I will tamper […]
As I celebrate my 56th birthday, June 11th, I give gratitude to God Almighty. I have so many reasons to be grateful. I am grateful for my beloved husband, my amazing son, my siblings, my […]
Week in week out, nothing good seems comes out of Nigerian football. What keeps oozing out is something nauseating. The stench is not only nauseating, but is now suffocating. The stench is reaching a crescendo, […]
I have never told any of these men this – they will always be one of the true heroes of Nigeria’s democracy in my eyes. Sometimes I wish they will shed their humility, climb aboard […]
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, says there is no future for Nigeria except the country is restructured. Nnia Nwodo, president general of the organisation, said this in a statement issued on his behalf by […]
Over the last 11 years, we have worked as technical support providers in the Nigerian public sector. In that time, we have had first-hand experience of individuals and institutions at every level of government in […]
When he wrote In Julius Ceaser that the evil that men do live after them, legendary Writer, Williams Shakespeare, was alluding to the fact that evil deeds in history are often more easily remembered than […]
It is a matter of irony that President Muhammadu Buhari, who was decidedly hostile to Chief Moshood Abiola when he was our military Head of State, is the one to honour my old boss by […]
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned” The above is an excerpt from one of many brilliant works of […]
Mr Pius Osadolor applied to be connected to the public electricity grid when he first moved into his “new” house a little over a decade ago. He was asked to go to a nearby bank […]
“Our collective lackadaisical reactions to science should become an issue of national concern; we need science and its engagement more than it needs us. Science meant to complement faith not to contend with it” —Toyin […]
Tunji Ajibade; tunjioa@yahoo.com; 08036683657 The African Nations’ Cup starts in Egypt this month and Nigeria’s Super Eagles will participate. I’m worried about the safety of our boys. Over the years, one had had to worry […]
I am very glad to be back in Abuja. Before I start, I want to congratulate the previous speaker, and I hope you don’t expect as good a performance from me, but I will give […]
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