Hundreds of million for 90 minutes, peanuts for a lifetime of service, by Stephanie Shaakaa
*Nigeria’s Broken Scale of Value When the Super Falcons clinched their record-extending tenth Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title in July 2025, the Presidency rolled out the red carpet. The players received national honours, three-bedroom apartments in Abuja and the promise of the naira equivalent of $100,000 each. The financial rewards were eventually fulfilled in […]
The many shades of Easter
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. The churches, synagogues and other places of worship will be full. Many of those in the congregation tomorrow go to church only twice a year— the other day being Christmas. Many will make it a family outing and an opportunity for the kids to show off their new Easter dresses.
Are house helps necessary or necessarily evil? (2)
You should enhance the lives of your house helps, especially since it will likely reflect in the quality of care they give your children.
Realities of resurrection power
When God made the heavens and the earth, He made them good. There was no evil, corruption, sickness, famine, death, etc. Everything was beautiful and in abundance.
The changing phases of Nigeria
The problems of today could be traced to the total neglect of the indigenes of Jos who had no access to education or any type of social services. They were not considered part of the emerging Jos metropolis of the decades before the 1950s.
One day begins a story
A foreign girlfriend told me last week that she never ceases to marvel at the docility of the average Nigerian. To illustrate her point, she talked about a recent experience at one of our airports.
Shortly after she arrived to catch a flight that was supposed to take off at around 11am, it was announced that the flight had been postponed until 1pm.
