Nigerian leaders are a clever lot, aren’t they? They knew citizens would be looking forward to goodies this season. At least, if they couldn’t have good governance throughout the year, they deserve a semblance of the dividends of democracy at the end of the year. But what did we have? Letters, letters, and letters! We…

The current week is probably one in which we curse the most. We are right too! As great Christians, we should! We should start with the things we really don’t want in our lives. That’s why our churches are filled to the brim on New Year’s Eve. It goes this way: For the chain smoker,…

Photo credit: Punch Newspaper May the soul of Alhaji Sheu Shagari rest in perfect peace! I believe he presided over Nigeria in the country’s heyday. Contesting elections against the intellectually sound Nnamdi Azikiwe, the ideologically sound Aminu Kano and the result-oriented Obafemi Awolowo wasn’t a mean feat. Even if the election was in a logjam,…

My own generator is bigger than yours! Oh yeah!! Lagos is a big city, sorry mega city. What about the unnecessary blaring of horns of vehicles in a traffic jam even when there’s no hope of easing up? Someone once said the hooters never had toys to play with in their childhood. The okada, as…

Nkàn mẹ́ta l’ọdẹ kìí pa:Ọdẹ kìí pa asán,Ọdẹ kìí p’òfo,Ọdẹ kìí p’àdánù,Ẹ kò ní p’asán,Ẹ kò mà ní p’òfo,Bẹ́ẹ̀ni , ẹ kò sì ní p’àdánù o.Gbogbo ara ni ṣẹṣẹfun fií nṣ’ajé l’ójojúmọ́ .Ajé á máa jẹ́ ti yín l’ójojúmọ́ .Ìná kòní tán ọwọ́ yín .Ojú kìí pọ́n iṣin àìlà .Ojú kò ní pọ́n yín o…

Photo credit: the Source Magazine The South Easterners used a device to deter the more superior, in terms of fire power and strategy, federal forces during the regrettable and unnecessary civil war. That is ogbunigwe. Sadly, instead of the federal government to order research into it and thereby make it an instrument of warfare, the…