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Beware this japa scam, By Donu Kogbara

Beware this japa scam, By Donu Kogbara

Nigeria is so hard that the last time I checked, nearly 100,000 people had expressed interest in Lollah’s video. And only God knows how many are taking other similar videos seriously.

Yeah, right!!!

Yeah, right!!!

On Tuesday, a video of the President’s convoy went viral on social media platforms. Someone took the trouble to do some counting and informed the world that no less than 109 vehicles were involved. I haven’t seen any rebuttal from the Villa, so I assume that it’s true.

The tragedy of low ambition, By Donu Kogbara

The tragedy of low ambition, By Donu Kogbara

I’ve always been fairly unambitious and selectively lazy. My mother wanted me to go to one of the two most elite universities (Oxford and Cambridge) in the United Kingdom, where I grew up. And, if I say so myself, I certainly possessed the brains to make her happy and make it to either of these […]

Relationships ruined by politics, By Donu Kogbara

Relationships ruined by politics, By Donu Kogbara

Last week, I wrote about “The Five Stages of Grief”, a theory about the emotional journeys humans go through when they are grieving. The theory was invented by Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss American psychiatrist, and usually refers to people who are facing death or have lost loved ones. But it can also be applied […]

The five stages of grief

The five stages of grief

By Donu Kogbara Dr Elisabeth Kubler- Ross (1926-2004) was an eminent Swiss American psychiatrist who first introduced a theory titled: “The 5 Stages of Grief” in a 1969 book titled On Death And Dying. The five distinct stages she highlighted were: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Kubler-Ross originally based this theory on her observations […]