Why Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway (4), by Eric Teniola
This week continues the narrative on Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. In 1934, he, Vaughn, H.O. Davies and others became the leaders of the new Lagos Youth Movement (NYM), which in 1938 was renamed the Nigerian Youth Movement and came under the leadership of Dr. D.K. Abayomi. Three years later he was elected to the Legislative Council […]
It’s a piggy fight in Kaduna
Stories from Kaduna State in recent times have not been pleasant. In addition to the killings carried out mostly in the southern part of the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen, among others, the political crisis now rocking the state appears to have assumed a more dangerous dimension.
Black Panther- what’s the big deal
In December of 2016, the Nigerian cinema-going crowd was treated to two phenomenal movies that changed our cinema history forever.
Buhari’s anti- corruption war room needs an adult with a whip
We can excuse the police. The police have not had time to join the fight against corruption. Or perhaps they have not had the guile to pretend to be involved. We have seen the DSS. The way they took on the judges you would think that they would have emptied the country of corrupt senior civil servants and compelled a few senior police officers into prudent early retirement.
Nigerian Christians are in a fix
They put themselves there. They parade a Big God. Yes He is big. But they do only small things. They are never embarrassed. They cover their ineffectiveness by exaggerating their small mundane deeds.
Technology dowry in Sino American energy relations
In most parts of Africa the bride-price or dowry is an exchange of wealth between intermarrying families, often accompanied by payment made by the groom to the bride’s family. In other societies Africa, the dowry is a bit confusing. Dowry in some societies means an amount of money or property given by a bride’s family to her bridegroom or his family when she marries.
