I had a terrible stutter when I first came to Lagos. The kind that was so bad I couldn’t call out bus stops. You know, a bus would stop and ask and you wouldn’t be able to voice out your…
President Muhammadu Buhari has joined in celebrating former Minister of Information, Chief Alexander Opeyemi Akinyele, as he marks his 80th birthday tomorrow April 24, 2018. In a statement signed by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President, (Media & Publicity) the president…
The country is gearing itself up for the General Elections in February next year and with President Muhammadu Buhari announcing that he will bid for the governing Party, APC’s ticket to run for a second term, all hell has been…
After 85 days of intrigues and sundry schemings, commercial pilot Miracle Igbokwe aka Miracle emerged winner of the BB Naija Double Wahala TV show. He emerged last man standing alongside the very controversial CeeC. Miracle won with over 38% of…
M.I’s new album, Rendezvous, will cast him in a different light, to devoted fans who have followed his career since his breakthrough single Crowd Mentality, if only they appraise him differently. Here is Mr Incredible, that short black dude, whose…
On Tuesday, I was waiting for a bus to take me to Obalende when I saw a woman calling “Obalende, Obalende.” She was in the bus a few feet away from me but I could not imagine a woman doing…
Review of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Farrar, Straus And Giroux 238pp 2009 The literary world is always on the lookout for the next bright writing star. They are always looking to canonise, to put forward a fresh…
In Lagos, it is a crime to be a young man. As if being a Nigerian youth isn’t enough, you now have the misfortune of living in Lagos where the police like to drive their beat up Hilux trucks, roaming…
My family moved to Lagos in 1991, sometime in October. I was in school at the University of Jos when Reinhard Bonnke came to Kano to host one of his mammoth crusades. It didn’t go right. There was a riot,…
The greatest talking point in our country this week has been the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari that he would seek a second term in office next year. And naturally so. Desire by any President, whether positive or negative, should…
