Introspective

Call Me Tony: A Parable of Corporate Nigeria

By Temitope Lakisokun The argument over the young trainee who addressed UBA chairman Tony Elumelu by his first name has become a surprisingly revealing debate...

The Myth of New Year Resolutions: Why 2025 Won’t Magically Save You

As we inch closer to the dawn of 2025, the air is thick with the buzz of "New Year, New Me" proclamations. Across the...

The Ageless Myth: Is Age Really Just a State of Mind?

The concept of aging has long been considered a biological certainty, as though an unavoidable countdown is inscribed within our very DNA. Yet, mounting...

The Scent of Death

Death has a peculiar scent. In the business of saving lives, one ends up hanging around that scent quite a bit. It assaults your nostrils, clings to your clothing and messes with your mind, tauntingly reminding you of your failure...

Critics, Commentators, and Gadflies

I do what I do on this and other sites only as a leisure pursuit. But considering what I have gone through in the last couple of months, and more so in the last couple of days, I have come to have greater respect and admiration for writers, critics, gadflies, and social commentators...

Migratory Flights

There are few simple pleasures as enjoyable as watching birds flying. Like a school of fish, their inbuilt GPS systems continue to amaze and attract observation whenever they are seen in action...

Getting Older

Ever since I turned 21, every succeeding birthday throws me into a fit of depression. Okay, not literally but my gratefulness for having made it another year is overshadowed by the idea that I am older. What is it about getting older that people don’t like?

Snow White

Tall, slender, black as ebony, graceful and lithe. Snow white was a wonder to behold - almost even more puzzling than her name...

Living An Others-Centred And Inner Court Lifestyle

Living for others may be tough for sure, but the merits outweigh the demerits. History records the life of those who lived for others. Many put their lives on the line for the sake of others...

2007 is Finally Gone…

The most poignant reminder of 2007 when it is reflected on years from now will be the avoidable wanton waste of life. Kidnappings and murder in the Niger Delta, people starving to death in refugee camps...

Love Is All That Matters

I observe people at funerals. All sort of people, it is indeed the gathering of the good the bad and the ugly...

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The Tower of Babel

Man as an intelligent animal is full of problems and reading his mind is the crux of the matter. Only God can decipher the mind of man full of intrigues...

Analysis: Israel’s Hi-Tech Attacks on Hezbollah and Their Implications for the Middle East, Terrorism, and Global Security

The recent back-to-back attacks in Lebanon, with explosions targeting...

Jesus Twin-Question as Eternity awaits all

While Satan is seeing priceless souls of men that he must ruin at all cost, men are seeing the world as ‘priceless’ and are doing everything to get it and so, they are not only exchanging their souls for the world but actually signing with the devil in his affront to our Creator...

Welcome to America, My Brother

"No, you cannot drive my car; you have no driver’s license." "I don’t need a driver’s license to drive! I have been driving in Lagos For good ten years without a license"

Lunch At The Sungbo Eredo

I have been hoping for a flourishing period, a better tomorrow. However, this is fast becoming a mirage, a tint in the sky.... I hope for a time when we all shall stop walking on our heads...

Amaechi, Contractors and the Future of Rivers State

Amaechi seemingly did not tighten up how contracts were awarded in Rivers State. He might say that it was not in his office to award contracts, but since this concerned his government, the criteria with which contracts were awarded then to mostly indigenes, were not committed to assiduous supervision...

Just How Gullible Art Thou?

In every human setting, there are misled African souls. A disheartening truth however is that it is in the Third World that you find them most...

World Diplomatic Crises, Afghanistan, Iran: No Turn-around

Seneca’s view that government is more or less a makeshift remedy for human evil, has remained a truism...

My Husband is a Land Lord in Abuja

"Papa Nkiru, agaghim ekwe nkea. Nkiru must finish her secondary school before she gets married. Nkechi got married like that, and now you want Nkiru to follow suit..."

True Wealth According To Jesus Christ

“Spiritual Wealth”, which is the major theme of the Bible and which, despite having been muffled by the prosperity doctrines of some of today’s churches, will ultimately determine our final destination after judgment day. Whether we are going to “Heaven” or “Hell” will be determined by the kind of wealth we choose to acquire on this earthly plain...