The Southwest of Nigeria leads in several aspects of life in the country today because its pioneering leader, Obafemi Awolowo had before independence in 1960, created for his people, a reformative self-awareness governance system. As premier of the then Western Region, Awolowo introduced free education for all in addition to a combined radio and television […]

Beloved, last Sunday was Mother’s Day.  Indeed mother’s day is marked more than once a year. We are still going to have another one by some Christians. One of the reasons God created man and woman is to bear children among other things. God commanded in Genesis 1 vs. 27 & 28(KJV): So God created man […]

There is a song ‘between the devil and the deep blue see’ done in the early 1930s. It was commonly recorded by artists such as Cab Calloway and Frank Sinatra. The lyrics have a chorus that goes thus: I don’t want you but I hate to lose you, you have put me in between the […]

For generations, the world assumed that if the Strait of Hormuz ever closed, it would be because someone fired the first shot

We live in a time where falling in love feels less like discovering a person and more like passing a test. From New York to Nairobi, Tokyo to Lagos,

President Tinubu is the strongest politician ever produced in this country. Give it to him. He is fully in control of power, without forcing anyone to do his bidding. All those screaming that Asiwaju is buying people with money should be ashamed of themselves. All the turn coats are cheaper than Ayilara whores.

I experienced/saw bullying from primary school. At Ughelli, Delta State, two elder brothers of mine protected me. When my father was transferred to Ozoro in 1973, I continued my primary education in Ozoro. I did not really experience bullying. But two classmates of mine did cause me some distress. On one occasion, they wanted to see the […]

Tinubu has done us proud. The first Nigerian leader to visit the English monarch in decades. That’s no mean feat.  He may not have tamed the electricity demon he had  bitched bitterly about when he was in the opposition.  But it’s inspiring to see him dazzling the paparazzi at Windsor. It’s not easy to find […]

Before the advent of digital media with its era of quick clicks, the print media was the most enduring means of reaching and influencing minds. This made its practitioners visible and its Editors powerful. And connected. There was therefore, the tendency to see the world as your oyster, or worse, to think the world owed you, […]

Ardent fans of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, BAT, are something else! They can’t abide anyone who doesn’t share their blind allegiance to their hero. They choose to wallow in intellectual dishonesty and to disbelieve deservedly negative stories about his performance and his past. They blame him for nothing that is going wrong in Nigeria. I […]