The concept of aging has long been considered a biological certainty, as though an unavoidable countdown is inscribed within our very DNA. Yet, mounting evidence suggests that this view may…
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Introspective
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These are dangerous days of gross shamelessness in totalitarian Nigeria. Pathetic flaunting of clannish power is all the rage, and a good number of supposedly modern-day Nigerians have thrown their…
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New Year, new wahala! Everywhere you look, its doom and gloom: politicians come and go promising Heaven and Earth, but fail to deliver, leaving the average person on the street…
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My birthday is about to happen, which means that Nigeria is older than me by about three months, but I feel very ancient because of the way the country has…
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It is in my DNA to make very powerful enemies. It’s as though I cannot stop myself from fighting diabolical principalities and powers, and their agents and toadies. Only the…
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When we view a sense of entitlement from the point of view of one’s belief that they deserve privileges even when they do not earn them, the African easily comes…
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By Isah Aliyu Chiroma “I have concluded that the best people in the world are those who regard service to their country and their society as the chief purpose of…
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Nothing can be more jarring than discovering at this moment when one is congratulating oneself on having written on everything only to instantly discover that one has written absolutely nothing…
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In this place, reality exists unsettled… * There is something about Lagos. In this place, reality is warped, unsettled, indecisive on being or not being. More than half of everything…
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This it! The Whole world is going crazy and you need to prepare yourself to go through incredible tough times for a long time to come! You need to be…
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Over the years, many a personality has endeared themselves not only to their immediate native villages but also to their communities, the less privilege and even to widows, with the…
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About 20 years ago my Aunt had enjoined me to eat cold eba with hot stew but I never really attached significance to it until recently. I have tended to…
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According to Ayo Ademokoya’s news story which circulated widely on social media, Mrs Foluke Joseph, the 41-year-old mother of three was murdered by her 11-year-old housemaid. The story is drenched…
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Self-appointed guardians of political possibility who desire to mask their untenable neutrality when moral issues are on the dock would always essay to dry-clean their consciences by asking: why don’t…
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“Until you know how African you are, you don’t know how American you are” – Robert Farris Thompson As a newbie in the nation of Samba, there was the expected…
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Once upon a time a university professor walked around on a stage while teaching weight and weightlessness to an auditorium filled with students…