The real deal is here. Nothing compares to the FIFA World Cup. Even expired players beg to play! Forget all the noise about European club football. I was at the celebrated Suya Spot on Akerele Street, Surulere, Lagos, the other…
The shock lasted a few mind-numbing moments, then something snapped awake inside me. I stared straight ahead, scanning hard into the distance. I saw my guy running against the traffic of cars and human bodies, trying to blend. Trying to…
“I Used To Go To Babalawo,” – General Prince Yormie Johnson Let’s do a fast rewind to the gory video scene of the killing of then President Samuel Doe of Liberia. There was the beer-guzzling Prince Yormie Johnson sitting in…
5th of May 2018 “Bros, you see that video Childish Gambino drop? Tight AF!” “Men, boys dey think o! That guy hammer big time.” “Azzin ehn. But come o. Falz, you fit do something like this na. As in…
It was a hot morning sometime in 2016 abi 2015. Maybe 2014 sef. I was in Uniben then, that I remember clearly. I had gone to Ikeja to shop for back-to-school stuff. Our bus stopped at the designated point, close…
Every wannabe in any Lagos newsroom wants to be an editor. I am different. Call me a reporter, and I will take a bow and a beer. Thank you. I don’t know how it happened, but everybody just started calling…
A few years back, when my kids were still young and I was a travelling and working mother, I needed a house help who would assist my mum to take care of my kids. I hired Pasi, a Togolese girl…
Millions of Muslims around the world mark the start of Ramadan on Wednesday in some countries and Thursday according to the Saudi calendar, a month of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. Hill (the crescent) coincides with the astronomical new moon. Since the…
What makes fasting seem so novel is that, with all the diet advice out there, the easiest might be to simply not eat. Of course, fasting isn’t the same as starving yourself, which is what many people think when they…
“Viola, be a woman of your words”, my mother scolded me. “If you know you do not plan to take any disciplinary action against this girl, stop announcing it and threatening her if not, she will learn not to take…
