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When my husband came for my hand in marriage, I was only 24 years old and my mother refused to have me married. My mother was working very hard for me to get into the university that year and that’s the reason she gave for refusing his proposal to marry me. But my husband went […]
Continue ReadingThere is this Billionaire friend of mine; we have been close for more than two decades. I have always been awed by the meticulous ways in which he handles all aspects of his wealth. He believes that you must not just make money, but that you must learn how to manage it; how to multiply […]
Continue ReadingIt just seems like a National emergency everywhere you look. The despondency seems matched only by the desperate sense of helplessness. The curiosity about this pall of disquiet led me to put my ears to the ground. I have been navigating Whattsapp groups. Saying little but feeling the temperature and letting the Barometer gauge. Despair […]
Continue ReadingLast Thursday, I attended the Valedictory session held in honour of Honourable Justice Amina Adamu Augie, CFR, Justice of the Supreme Court, who stepped down from the Apex Court having attained the mandatory retirement age of 70 on September 3, 2023, after 45 years of meritorious service on the Bench, in accordance to Section 291(1) of the 1999 […]
Continue ReadingWhen a wrong expression is used repeatedly, especially by trusted sources like media houses, many people who are right assume they are wrong and start using the wrong expression. That is what has happened with the recent wrong usage of “side chic” instead of “side chick” when referring to a mistress of a man, because […]
Continue ReadingBeyond politics – Tinubu’s maiden trip to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Atiku Abubakar’s voyage of discovery for Tinubu’s academic records in the United States, revelations regarding how the Presidency lied about the President’s stop-over after the G20 Summit on his way back home at the United Arab Emirates, the increasing failure of the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actor and matchmaker, Kehinde Adams, popularly called Lege Miami, has claimed that 35-year-old women now experience menopause. The matchmaker made the claim in an Instagram video while advising ladies to get married early. He counselled women to not be selective and not play hard to get because there are no men available. The video […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu gave our country’s Minister of Defence and Minister of State, Defence to the North; he gave the North Minister of Police Affairs and Minister of State, Police Affairs; he gave the North Minister of Education and Minister of State, Education; he gave the North Minister of Agriculture and Food Security and Minister […]
Continue ReadingWhen Ogbonnaya Ukeje died in Lagos two days after Christmas Day in 1981, Bode Rhodes-Vivour was a 30-year-old lawyer making his way up the rungs of public service in the Ministry of Justice in Lagos State. Mr. Rhodes-Vivour had been called to the Nigerian Bar a mere six years earlier, in 1975. In 1989, when […]
Continue Reading“There has not been a single area that had not been touched by the Buhari government. We have seen massive positive changes in the last eight years..Bullies who attacked governments and ‘something dropped’ will continue to antagonize Buhari borne of anger from lost opportunities. A certain Buhari “critic” who served a military governor in one […]
Continue ReadingThe Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has since reaffirmed the declaration of Mr. Bola Tinubu as our duly elected president. In response, the two major contenders Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party respectively have scaled up their legal objections to the Supreme Court. It is more like a slovenly […]
Continue ReadingAn old citizen chatted me up after last week’s publication. He told me he does not take coffee and in his words, he said, “The challenge is that coffee’s aroma overpowers its drinkers’ decorum for moderation in drinking, so for me, flee from it. Look for beverages that have equal health benefits” I quite agree with […]
Continue ReadingIf Nigeria were a different country, a society that draws a moral line no one is allowed to cross, the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye, would be out of her job by now. For some unclear reasons, she intervened in the case of the embattled Dean of Law, University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Osim […]
Continue ReadingIt says so much about our country that the government as well as our citizens appear oblivious to the monumental human misery in Morocco and Libya. Given the magnitude of the catastrophe in the two North African countries, the federal government should have offered relief measures aside coordinating efforts at the level of individual citizens […]
Continue ReadingHave you tried drying some bitter leaf as I explained? Recently, a friend of mine took me on a walk and she decided to show me the place she always talked about where talinum triangulare (water leaf) grew in abundance. When we got there, we ended up getting a whole sack of water leaf! I spoke […]
Continue Reading“Omo, it is now that I am beginning to understand why there is so much fight for this thing called Presidency of Nigeria oh. See as Tinubu just dey do swag, dey shine, dey do Eko for Show from here to there. Him just dey tranga, dey travel, dey flex. Him don dey look young […]
Continue ReadingAn oba is put on the throne to keep “the bush at bay.” Collectively and individually, the successful oba is praised as “so’gbó di’lé/sò’gbé dì’gboro/ oba a s’ààtàn d’ojà – the successful king is he who turns forest to home; the one who turns bush to town. Karin Barber’s ‘I Could Speak Until Tomorrow’ (published in […]
Continue ReadingLast week, I had the honour of visiting Dr. Amos Akingba, a chieftain of Afenifere and National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), in his Ode-Irele, Ondo State country home. Akingba, who turned 85 last March, relocated to his hometown about two years ago. Since home is for rest, the elder statesman is back home to savour the […]
Continue ReadingMoney talks and virtually all the state government just finishing their first 100 days in office had very little to say because they are broke. In the past, print media was bombarded with 100 days reports from every state. We sometimes had insufficient space for them. Now, we have next to nothing to publish. As […]
Continue ReadingI watched with extreme difficulty, and not insubstantial pain, the interview in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in which the poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, very painfully, tried to subvert the truth about the Nigerian election, by claiming that the Labour Party “came third” and knew that they “did not win the election.” That the […]
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