IJEBULAND: Inside story of the Awujale succession crisis
For Ijebuland, the wait for a new Awujale has become much more than a traditional succession exercise.
It has evolved into a complex contest involving custom, law, family interests, institutional authority and allegations of political influence.
Have a banana on me
I was in my office one morning, when a colleague of mine sauntered in. Kay, as she was fondly called by me just went on and on…………”I have been gaining so much weight and all I tried was adding fruits to my diet, I am just fed up”.
How Facebook, Twitter, others shaped Nigeria’s elections
In a continent where one out of every 5000 in 1998, was an internet user, the current boom in internet usage, especially social media is particularly striking. For Nigerians, the social media is the in-thing
‘How NIDO has helped in remaking Nigeria’
NIDO is an organisation of Nigerians living all over the world. We abbreviated it to NIDO America or NIDO-A. it comprises United States, Canada and the whole of South America.
From the creeks to the classroom in America
When Lucky Ambamowei (not real name) was called out of the Federal Government’s post-amnesty’s non-violence training at Obubra, Cross Rivers State, to be told in hushed tones that he had been picked for an undergraduate training in a Russian university, he didn’t quite believe the information he was being fed with.
How to stay in 50% of marriages that last
Contrary to Biblical declaration that a man shall leave his mother and his father and be joined to his wife as husband and wife for ever, and that nothing should put them asunder, many marriages have collapsed.
