AS the troubled Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, convenes its Ministerial Council meeting in Abuja on February 8 to discuss the quit notice served by three of its members – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – the situation in Senegal might well be the elephant in the room. Three weeks to the presidential election […]

LAST week the video of a man seen crying in front of a market stall where he had gone to buy foodstuffs trended heavily on the internet, as it was widely shared across many platforms — chat groups on WhatsApp, on Facebook, and others. The man was seen in front of a shop where common foodstuffs like […]

I MAKE no secret of my anti-government tendencies. I was born with a rebellious, iconoclastic, outspoken streak; and even when Obasanjo (the best president we’ve ever had, in my opinion) was head of state, I occasionally lobbed verbal and written missiles at the authorities. Now, with Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the hot seat, I am almost […]

ON the eve of last Saturday’s re-runs and bye-elections, I had an interesting chat, or if you like debate, on WhatsApp with a prominent Nigerian, whose name I would rather keep under wraps. A very successful businessman and extremely brilliant man, the septuagenarian who loves intellectual baiting and does not suffer fools gladly, reacted to my […]

I’ll begin this part by quickly sharing a cheat sheet to help you with your creative writing expedition. Before you begin writing, make sure you have a good notebook, a decent pen, plenty of paper, a computer or laptop, a desk or other writing space, a dictionary, and a thesaurus.  When writing your first draft, don’t […]