Remember the Otedola Bridge fire? Remember how at the peak of its news cycle, the state government released a statement? As a government, we would not...
When the #MeToo movement was at its strongest, in 2017, many a powerful men were brought down in the US, made to face the consequences of...
Valentine’s Day in secondary school was always a fun day. I remember how right from the assembly ground you could feel the excitement in the air....
I imagine so many of us have decided in 2019 we are going to be reading. All the books we missed out on. Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater,...
The music video of Michael Jackson‘s They Don’t Care About Us — the Prison Version; the Brazil Version is a lot more sanitized, with its marching band and...
Picture your Ijaw president, draped in grey agbada, his signature bowler missing atop his head, because, well, he’s in the house of God. He’s kneeling, a...
There’s a scene in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s book, Americanah that consistently amuses me whenever I read it. It’s that scene where Chief about to change Obinze’s life,...
It’s a story I heard often while growing up. It’s a story I still hear often enough. The story sounds the same in every case, to...
2018 has been wild, hasn’t it? Let’s forget how fast it’s been – we should be used to how fast the years go by now, close...
Things we know for a fact: homophobia is a norm in Nigeria. Maybe it’s the religion – because, you know, we’re very religious – but we...
It’s basically the culture of middle class Nigerians at this point – have your children in the US. What better gift to give your child than...
I like the patient purgation of Sundays. I know I’m probably the only one, but I enjoy how restful it can be, the feeling of the...
I was stuck in Ajah traffic on Tuesday morning, trying hard to read a Kevin Barry story in all of its florid glory, squeezed between three...
It’s an event every first Friday of the month, the Lagos-Ibadan expressway clogged with cars, all roads leading to what has been christened the Redemption Camp....
There is a growing chasm between employers and people on the Nigerian job market; the former insist people are unemployable, while the latter lament the absence...
The Osun State governorship election rerun looks like something out of the 2003 elections. Free and fair is some distant idea, foreign and unreasonable. There have...
While seeking reelection in 2003, the then-President Olusegun Obasanjo kicked off a campaign that included a 12 point agenda: fighting insecurity, a war against corruption, education,...
Man, it’s hard to believe a lot of the toxic ideas on parenting our own parents grew up with have been passed onto us. Yeah, this...
In the words of the great Frank Ocean: Why see the world when you got the beach? It’s possible to be so privileged that you become completely blinded...
It’s the last day, the very last chance for you to get your Permanent Voters Card (PVC). Now, it is possible you’ve procrastinated until today, the very last...
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