Smoke woke me up. It started as an offensive odour. Then as it grew in intensity, the last vestiges of sleep quickly deserted me.Alarmed, I sprang up trying to trace the source of the acrid smell. My worst fear was that an electric circuit had been somehow bridged during the night which had caused a […]

Some 25 years ago, during the tenure of a certain General made President by the godfathers of Nigeria, a contact called from Aso Rock to give me a piece of good news. The caller knew of my relationship with someone who was being considered for a top political job and felt I should know before it became […]

I have a very close friend whose father made him an executor to his will ahead of his much older siblings in a large, but affluent polygamous family. That was rather uncommon in a typical African setting. It gets even more uncommon. The very detailed will gave mere stipends from a rather expansive estate to some of […]

I was Editor of the Vanguard Newspapers in 1985 when General Ibrahim Babangida popularly known as IBB became the nation’s Head of State. The goodwill that attended his succession was indescribable, in part because of the harsh rule of his predecessor, but in the main because of his own persona. At the time, I often met people […]

By divine providence, this year turns out to be one of those years that Muslim Ramadan and Christian Lent start about the same time. This March should then mean a Holy Month for the nation called Nigeria given the importance – and influence – of these two major religions in the country. Many Nigerians, including their leaders, […]