By Patrick Dele Cole •This piece which was first published last week, today continues the argument that women are better managers as they focus more on what is important in the performance of their job. BUT choosing to focus in on these benefits only risks extenuating existing stereotypes into our interpretation of the role of […]

By Patrick Dele Cole IT was always there, but I didn’t appreciate it: Love and, more important, appreciation. It is possible to love without appreciation, especially if one is coming from and within the fog of entitlement. She was my wife I was entitled to her care. For well over 40 years, my wife had […]

By Patrick Dele Cole This piece continues from last week on the concept of cheating in marriage YOU cannot truly translate cheating to meet any of the things the West now imposes on us, but there is a wind of change in Africa. This is inarguable: It is still, however, far from universal acceptance as […]

By Patrick Dele Cole THERE is very little sex education in Nigeria, at least when I was growing up. Most Nigerians learn about sex from peer groups or lecherous adults who exploit the ignorance of the young. The main teacher of sex education in Nigeria are the prostitutes so strategically located near every boys boarding […]

By Patrick Dele Cole This is the concluding part of the nostalgic tale of unforgetable childhood games which was first published last week This is your notification to go catch your prey. But you are not the only one: the farmer may be around and he hates interlopers messing around in his farm. Other birds […]

By Patrick Dele Cole IT started with one truck parked outside the gate of the Tin Can Port, Apapa, Lagos because the truck park was full. The next day, two more trucks parked on the road awaiting their turn to lift cargo. The park was busy and so were the factories for wheat, sugar and […]

By Patrick Dele Cole The first part of this piece which was published last week frowned at the abuse of power and privileges by those in positions of authority. It concludes today by raising issues over gratuity, pensions and other entitlements being received by governors, state commissioners and legislators in the country. THE money has […]

By Patrick Dele Cole NEWS organisations in Nigeria have to be ashamed of themselves for lacking the ability to truly inform the Nigeria public. All we do is to be a megaphone of government, big businesses and indeed anyone who can pay. Chibok and Dapchi happened, no Nigerian journalist reported it properly: no one went there; […]

I am trying to build a composite Nigerian by taking all that is good and even questionable in as many ethnic groups as possible

PROF Bolaji Akinyemi – an international colossus – foresaw early where and what Nigeria’s foreign policy should be. He proposed the Afirican High Command because he understood that without a united Africa, the West, Russia and China would trample all over it, taking the minerals and wealth of the richest continent away for next to nothing.

By Patrick Dele Cole SO the judiciary now rules that the party cannot offer candidates for the election because some members claim that certain arcane rules of the party had not been obeyed: thus disenfranchising millions of that party`s political persuasion and worse still gifting the post of president or governor or senator to a […]

By Patrick Dele Cole SIMPLY put: many of these cases are not worth the paper they were written on but it is not the job of the participants in a transaction to point out the pitfalls for those representing Nigeria. The Central Bank of Nigeria has had an inglorious history with regards to governors. Chief […]

By Patrick Dele Cole IT always starts small. I was small. My friends were small. The amount of money was small. My mother, apart from being a full time midwife, was a seamstress and events caterer – cakes for weddings, salad every weekend for the frequent dances at the recreation and other African clubs, the […]

By Patrick Dele Cole ISRAEL has the same respect for its military as the United States. They hold values that are existentialist to its survival under a democratic system with a large dose of freedom. When a US soldier dies in combat, his coffin, draped in the US flag, is buried in Arlington Cemetery in […]

By Patrick Dele Cole THE USA and Nigeria each had a civil war. One was to keep the USA united and to end slavery. The USA through the civil war developed a healthy respect for the military. That also set in place the values which had promised the USA to be a nation of the […]