I met Pastor Bimbo like many others through her programme, Single and Married. As a newly married couple, my wife and I used to have our breakfast on Sundays with …
Toni Kan Onwordi
Toni Kan Onwordi
Toni Kan Onwordi holds both a B.A. and M.A. English (Literature) degrees from the Universities of Jos and Lagos. His works have been published widely in the Art pages of prominent Nigerian newspapers and his poems have appeared in the anthology 25 New Nigerian Poets edited by Toyin Adewale. He has also had short stories published in anthologies like We-Men, Little Drops (1) and Diamond and Ashes. An award winning poet, essayist and short story writer, his awards have taken him to Scotland and Switzerland. Toni Kan is currently working on a novel, Secrets of the Untold.
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Nigeria has become such a country that glorifies graft and celebrates ill-gotten wealth that “public service” has become an oxymoron, a blatant paradox when viewed against the warped tapestry of …
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OBJ is laughing like a hyena. Twice in less than six months, the Chicken Farmer has gathered the tribes from across the world in an orgy of extravagance…
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In the past one hundred and six days, Africans all over the continent, those who could afford cable tv subscriptions or a television set for those who caught the programme …
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One of the characters in the Ngige abduction drama has warned the PDP that he will tell the whole world how the elections were rigged in the East if the …
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Every day you queue up to buy petrol at N34 a litre or pay twice the amount you used to pay for your bus ride, you will be contributing to …
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Oga, dem say make I ask you one question: you dey crase?
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Driving to work this morning, I was ruminating over an e-invitation I received yesterday requesting me to submit the title of the African book that has had the most impact …
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How come there are so many pregnant mad women running around Lagos? Who is knocking them up and where the hell do they ‘do’it?
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Ghali Naaba’s headache is figuring out what his siblings will now call him. At the height of his powers he had ordered them to call him Mr. Speaker. Alhaji, my …
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Will Nigeria Burn?
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“Bad people” set Buhari up to contest for just one reason: to make OBJ look good…
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Sometimes when we get that which we want, it leaves a terribly sour taste in the mouth…
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My mother hasn’t tired of telling me that she will not be in Lagos come April no matter what my dad says…
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The number 3 has always had a bad resonance in the Nigerian political landscape: 1983, 1993 and now 2003…
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Less than two months to the Elections, fuel scarcity has returned, NEPA is suffering from warapa again, AD is playing games with their support…