Lagos is magic. The impossible magic I am about to narrate here happened BEHIND my very eyes many years ago when I was still a young reporter. I’ve been too shocked to write about it after these many years. Remember…
It’s killing season or so it seems following after several cases of women butchering their husbands or battering them as we have been forced to witness in the last few months. It’s strange because the women involved are mostly educated,…
I have a vague recollection of the first time I visited Lagos. Once a year, my parents did a road trip to Abeokuta; where we are from. So, whoever was available would follow them. I went with them because I…
One sleepless night, I got a call from my friend Chris, a night owl. A software programmer and an acquaintance from my University days, Chris used to be a church boy. All that changed when he came to Lagos. All…
It would take a whole lot of guts to pick up a knife and stab your fellow human, right? Some people do it out of anger and provocation, it doesn’t lessen the crime though, they still get to do the…
When Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died on August 2, 1997, one holier-than-thou friend became outraged that I was mentioned in The Guardian’s front page report of the passing as one of the notable apostles of the Afrobeat legend. I shut the poor…
I saw the story in the Punch newspapers, headlined- Lagos pastor arrested for allegedly raping nine year old. As a mother of many daughters, it irks me every time I see headlines like this. Upon reading, I discovered the rape had…
The women decorate it, spice it up and give it to the men on a platter of their dignity. A man can do whatever he wants and get away with it. The woman that does it with him will be…
Recently, I developed a television series binge watching habit. I have no particular preference to speak of, but once I latch onto a series, I want to start from the first season and run through all the episodes, extras, tell…
My friend went for a high school reunion. When she entered into the venue, as you would expect it was all kinds of exclamations. “Geegee baby! So this is you????” But one of the ladies blurted out something in all…
