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“How are you coping with this fuel scarcity? Fuel queues everywhere. Even the bus stops are crowded. People waiting for buses that also do not have fuel.” “What I don’t understand is why every administration since 1999, marking the return to civilian rule, has had to deal with exactly the same problems: fuel scarcity, a […]
Continue ReadingSome wives are not worth the titles they carry. They are women, yes. Wives? No. The right moves, acts and depth are just not there. It is either they forgot everything their mothers and clerics taught them about being a wife or they simply came up with their own codes of conduct but whatever they […]
Continue Reading“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man is starving” – O’Henry, 1862-1910. Sometime ago, your Vice President called Nigerians, who registered their displeasure about the continuing devaluation of the Naira, “clowns” for not supporting the government now when things are tough. Shettima […]
Continue ReadingOne day, I will have the courage to ask the immaculate Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, how he feels each time he travels on the horrible Ibadan-Ife road. Ben Okri, ‘The Famished Road’ storyteller, finds his own ‘road’ a torment – he says it “leads home and then away from it, without end.” Okri […]
Continue ReadingI was filled with regrets after watching a documentary by the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) titled ‘Fuel Subsidy: Lifting a Nation’s Burden’. I started ruminating over what might have been. In the opening, Dame Winifred Akpani, founder and CEO of NorthWest Petroleum and Gas Company, reminds us of how fuel […]
Continue ReadingOn many fronts, America is showcasing the many burdens and benefits of democracy. Most Washington politicians are united in their support for Israel. But out on the streets, many Americans are opposed to Israel’s raging genocidal onslaught on Gaza and other Palestinian enclaves. While Congress had little trouble approving a further $20 billion in military aid to Israel, […]
Continue Reading“I am a widow but maybe I am fortunate because my own experience with men is different. Take for example the man that I am currently in a relationship with. He’s been separated from the wife for about two years when I met him and this is our third year together. Although, he doesn’t live […]
Continue ReadingSince the arrest of another Nigerian socialite, Pascal Okechukwu (aka Cubana Chef Priest), I have come across jejune assertions justifying the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s pursuit of those spraying naira at parties. While reading comments made by a random commenter on social media but unsupported with sensible evidence is one thing, it is another […]
Continue ReadingMoney is perhaps a homeless vagrant. It has no nationality or permanent homestead in real terms. It goes and stays only where its masters are wise, prudent and far sighted. But in a world dominated by nations and their interests, real money is first a national asset and tool of governance and sovereign assertion. When […]
Continue ReadingNative Brazilians arrest monkeys with what is called Cumbuca. They make a hole in a gourd that is big enough to accommodate the hand of a monkey. The gourd is then affixed to the ground of a place infested by monkeys. Placed inside the gourd is usually a banana for the attraction of the monkey. The monkey […]
Continue Reading“I feel lonely because I miss the company of a man that will be good to me but I don’t miss my late husband. I am not happy that he died but I am happy with where I am, now. “I am a university graduate, yet I felt lost and miserable due to the kind […]
Continue ReadingTunde Onakoya, the 29-year-old Nigerian Chess Master who has just broken the World Record for the longest chess marathon is most appropriately an embodiment of the Nigerian can-do spirit, the capacity of the average Nigerian to snatch victory from the depths of despair, indeed just when you think it is over, the Nigerian is so […]
Continue Reading“When you reach home, tell my mother, Say it was a boa that his son transformed into And never returned home.” The actor comes on the stage singing and dancing, his troupe festive around him. He invokes his powers and turns into this and that. Everything he fancies, he becomes. Then he goes back to […]
Continue ReadingA couple of widows told me their story. And we will be looking into them for the next few weeks. Read one of them… ‘’My husband’s death was so sudden that a part of me still unconsciously expects him to walk through the door and make me realise that everything has been a bad dream. […]
Continue ReadingDefinition of Impeachment The term ‘Impeachment’ refers to a legislative, and not a judicial process; the process by which the Legislature charges certain public officials for ‘gross misconduct’, and if such official is found guilty, they are removed from office by the Legislature. In fact, Sections 143(10) & 188(10) the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic […]
Continue ReadingThere are sound financial and moral arguments against wilful mutilation of the Naira, Nigeria’s national currency. These arguments provided the basis for the grudgingly passed provisions captured under Section 21 of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act, 2007. However, these financial and moral arguments, in my view, are not strong enough to invite criminal […]
Continue ReadingThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) aroused the rage of Nigerians this week when it revealed in its periodic newsletter called “EFCC Alert” (which it shared with news organizations on Monday) that it had recovered up to 30 billion naira of the money allegedly stolen by suspended Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation minister Betta Edu. […]
Continue ReadingAbido Shaker! Life is a widening gyre where women fear cockroaches, cockroaches fear cocks, cocks fear men, and men fear women. A few years ago, Chukwemeka Cyril Ohanaemere was an ordinary name in Nigeria until fakery kissed bombast and vainglory took materialism to bed, birthing ‘The Lion Himself’, ‘The War’. ‘The Fight’, ‘Dabus Kabash’, ‘The […]
Continue ReadingMany people experience negative feelings in life, in marriage these feelings can occur during different stages of the relationship regardless of the number of years a couple has been together. Feelings like anxiety, fear, loneliness, illness, and grief are some of the negative feelings of uncertainties couples often experience in marriage. The expectations you build […]
Continue ReadingLast Thursday, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar doubled down on his allegation that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road project is “a highway to fraud”. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election was countering claims by the Works Minister, Dave Umahi, whom he accused of dishonesty. “Umahi had announced that Hitech would […]
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