Opinion

Sango can be heard thundering in the skies; Oya, winding and storming here on earth! Ogun, powering furnace in forge! Yet, we turn deaf ear! What’s more, we turn blind eye, pretending not to see! If we did see or never lost our auditory system, did we also lose  our sense of speech? We continue…

By Tola Adeniyi Most times, in our self-absorption, we assume that people are talking about us. When some of us enter a social gathering, we are so self-conscious in our exaggerated self-importance that we think that all eyes at the party are centred on us especially so, if we believed the designer-dress we adorned was…

By Tunde Olusunle I’ve just watched a four-minute video clip of Alex Otti, the Abia State Governor, commissioning a humongous haul of 14 road projects in one day in Aba, the major commercial hub in the state. My interest was not in the ceremonial cutting of tapes and ribbons at every turn during the exercise….

Several years ago, I joined a group of my classmates in the secondary school.  I was with the group briefly. It was brief because I’m naturally a loner! I value my solitude. While with the group, I showed some of my books to the members. While some of them were showing signs of approval, a…

Never again will I join in blaming Baba Adan for not taking Nigerians seriously when they say there is hunger in the land. Barely a week ago, Obi Cubana shut Abuja down for his fiftieth birthday. The party was so big that most people didn’t notice that the birthday of the world’s wealthiest black man…

The journalist who asked Mr Buhari what Nigerians should be expecting from his administration is definitely a spoilsport! Haba!! If you look at his antecedent, he’s most likely to be from the opposition. How can anyone ask such a sickening question from a man who’s just recuperating from an undisclosed illness? Is he not a…