LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI
Your Excellency, I hope this letter meets you in sound health. I am particularly elated on your re-election into office for the next four years as an Executive President…
THE Ó TÓ GE MANTRA
The animal farm is a story that captures succinctly how a society can reach a tipping point and then rebel against its primal master. George Orwell's allegorical classic became…
NIGERIA ELECTIONS POSTPONEMENT: THE RIPPLE EFFECTS
Once upon a time, as our stories are often told, in a location of earth, mud and sweat dwelt a farmer whose wife was pregnant for the fourth time.…
WHAT ISN’T MADNESS IN NIGERIA?
As a people, we suffer from a chronic case of encephalopathy, strapped in on an imaginary cradle, we rock back and forth like a bunny gamboling after a dancing carrot.…
THE THIRD WHEEL: TOO LATE TO RIDE
Nigeria as a nation has always been notorious for having the patience of a suckling baby crying for milk, nothing else matters but nipples to our tiny mouth to…
THE GAME OF MUD FIGHTING
Ours were not a childhood of PlayStation, Sega and chocolate. We saw life through the prism of earth, dust and mud. We rolled used tyres for fun and traded in…
THE NEXT PRESIDENT DIDN’T COME FOR THE DEBATE
The January 19th Presidential Debate was arguably the most anticipated event in the build up to the presidential elections of February 16, 2019. This year's presidential elections have been…
JUST ANOTHER ELECTIONS
The Nigerian political climate is saturated and the clouds pregnant. The rains are precipitating in heavy drops, soon enough the torrents will flood the terrains, and a great deluge will…
2019: ANOTHER LEAP YEAR
It is a common saying that history is such a petty teacher that would not mind repeating the simplest of lessons a thousand times and for several generations until it…
2019: BEYOND THE WEDDING
You could taste the excitement in the air with your tongue taking a heavy scoop of wet dust. It would only be the early days of the first rains in…
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