You feel indestructible when young. It was fairly normal in my youthful days – I am sure it still happens today- for us to leave the office for a night club or leave a nightclub for office. Journalism, with its flexible working conditions, blurred the lines demarcating work and leisure even further. Smoking and drinking […]

The last two weeks have witnessed landmark birthday celebrations by some of my favourite people. Arit Tunde-Imoyo turned 70 and she decided on a different celebratory route from a decade ago when a few of us found ourselves in Florida to mark her sixtieth. Then, it was a small, intimate affair which included spending an […]

Some three and a half decades ago, there was a beggar around the Amuwo-Odofin area – long before the area became this congested – who caught my attention. Dressed mostly in white, he stood apart from the rest. Unlike some others, his disability was obvious- a leg was amputated well above the knees and he […]

Although she belongs to the corporate world, it was always her passion to design and make beautiful bags with local fabrics. It was this passion that was taking her away from her familiar world into the business world as it was a passion she was being goaded to take to another level in line with […]

The whole world watched, entranced and enthralled as Donald Trump, the immediate Past President of the United States of America- the most powerful country on earth to date- was put on trial and eventually convicted. The whole process of investigation, trial and conviction was not without drama as to be expected. But the outcome was […]

I attended the wedding of a late friend’s daughter a couple of weeks ago. As she walked the aisle to solemn, spiritual music, my mind wandered, for some strange, inexplicable reasons, to her birth – it was not the first time I was attending the wedding of someone I had carried in my arms as a child […]

I feel sorry for the poor who constitute the vast majority of Nigerians and who have been made victims of the rapacious appetite of their elites

A few days before the President’s recent visit to Lagos, which was to, among other things, flag off the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, bulldozers paid another visit to the Oniru Beach. Parts of this beach, for those who have been unaware of the several reports in the media, especially the social media, are said to be along […]

It happens often. Birthdays or anniversaries take the back seat when urgent and pressing developments crowd the mind. Last Monday was not an exception. June 3 was the day forty years ago, when the first copy of Sunday Vanguard rolled out. It is not a day I am expected to forget easily given the role […]

We may have had a change of government on May 29 last year, but the attitude of Nigerians, especially the elite and opinion molders, has remained the same