The Yuletide season climaxes every year on Christmas day, the day chosen and accepted as the birthday of Christ, the Prince of peace. The season itself is characterized by festivities, family holidays, sharing of gifts and yes, love but usually of the pleasurable type. The season is so often over shadowed by this carnal revelry that we […]

Surviving 2025 and beyond I consider myself a golf enthusiast. I love the sport and in the days Tiger Woods was reigning supreme, I often stayed until the small hours of Monday morning to watch him battle the field. They say golf is like life. I agree. Watching the sport as often as I do, […]

I almost lost my life in a stampede once. I had gone to the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos to watch a Super Eagles’ match. Not all the exit doors were opened by the time the match ended. This resulted in pushing and shoveling as an impatient crowd tried to edge through the few open […]

Almost every boy I knew joined either the Boy’s Scout or its younger cousin, the Boy’s Brigade during my primary school years. It was the thing to do and the place to belong, so we didn’t have to think too hard about it. Besides, it was also the fun thing to do. There was the […]

NOTE: YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE NEED TO READ THIS ARTICLE IF YOU ARE UNDER 60 WITH NO FEAR OF BECOMING OLD. Experts taught us many self-preservation technics during Covid19. Many probably saved lives. Many though, were just commonsense. While many, with the benefit of hindsight now, were surplus to life-saving requirements. One of the […]

One of the cardinal objectives of President Bola Tinubu on assuming office last year was to reduce the unemployment rate in the country. It is an objective any responsible leader should have and it is an objective this President has pursued with zeal. His obvious option, though in my view a less preferred one, has […]

Gambling with cards was an elite past time among some of the middle and upper middle class people of Lagos in the 70s and 80s. These were the ‘Yuppies’ – and their elder brothers –of the time. A lot of private parties in Surulere, Yaba and Ikeja ended up with cards being shuffled. Even some […]

A golden opportunity to interview General Olusegun Obasanjo slipped by some forty-five years ago. He and his friend, the late Chairman of Punch, Chief Olu Aboderin had arranged for me to spend some of his last hours as Head of State with him and possibly take a ride with him to his new abode in […]

There are times, not very often, when words fail me and I wished I had the talent of an impressionistic writer to capture certain scenes and even moods on paper the way a gifted artist would on canvas. Last week was one of those times. Call it the curiosity of an old journalist, but I […]

A couple of weeks ago, the Sunday Vanguard lamented the mass exodus of the country’s medical doctors in its front page story. The article talked of a medical workforce so depleted that retired doctors had to be coerced back to save our hospitals and offer a semblance of professional service to the people. These days, […]

The Universal Church, otherwise known as the Catholic Church in many parts of the world including ours, designates the month of October as the month of Mother Mary. It is the month during which praying the Rosary by the faithful is encouraged every day to ask for Mary’s intervention in the affairs of man especially […]

First, let me start with my own Libyan experience. I was billed to do a professional tour of some Middle-East countries and Libya was one of them. My destination was Tripoli. My goal was to get a firsthand view of the developments that had taken place in this oil rich country. I was hoping my […]

Last week, someone I have a great deal of respect for summarised the current electricity tariff so beautifully on a platform we both belong to when he said ‘A short while ago, we had air conditioners we couldn’t use because there was no NEPA (electricity). Today, we dare not use these air conditioners because of […]

These days, the phrase, ‘Tales by moonlight’ is used for wild conspiracy theories, conjectures and outlandish narrations that barely touch reality. In other words, fairy tales that even fools would find difficult to believe and therefore, to be dismissed outright. They are right, except for the dismissive cynicism. Growing up in a rural town, I […]

The patio in Ikoyi Club is about the best place to stay if you want to kill time at the club. Most people going to other sections pass through the place. And when they are done with whatever has brought them to the club, they have to  pass through the patio again. This to and […]