It was just a bit past noon as I left the government office in Alausa where I had gone to transact some business and I was about to enter the carpark when I saw him. Him being a young man…
Okay calm down, it’s not the rapture and it’s not just in Nigeria. It is just a glitch. Facebook-owned properties — including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger — were hit by sweeping outages Monday which left users locked out of the…
What I’m about to tell you is a painful story. It is so painful, so sad, I don’t even know how to start. But let me give you a bit of context here. Now, when I was in my early…
I had the misfortune of opening a video I now wish I can unsee; the video will haunt me for a long time to come. Already I’ve had nightmares and I haven’t stopped cursing the person who sent it to…
..thoughts on patriotism and Nigeria Peter Enahoro’s “How to be a Nigerian” remains one of my most favourite books about Nigerians. It is a humorous take on how Nigerians conduct themselves in diverse situations and across all spheres of life.…
I married my wife knowing she was high maintenance. We met in London, way back in the day, at a party organized by a mutual friend. Her parents had someone else in mind for her because, you see, she comes…
Our government has no shame! My dad used to tell a story about the tortoise to illustrate a point about the helplessness of one’s situation when dealing with someone without shame. At a gathering of men in a community, talk…
…reflections on social media friendships The first social media network I joined was Hi5, sometime in the mid-2000s. One of my cousins who lived abroad had sent me an invitation link. I wasn’t sure what to expect: I trusted her,…
My father always said he was going to have more children after the three my mother bore him but we never took him serious and for years we remained his only children until the year I got married, when he…
My mother- in- law was not a sweet woman when I first met her; she made impossible demands. she was a hard woman, a tough matriarch who demanded so much from her daughters-in-law. She is one of those you describe…
