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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 concept of aging has long been considered a biological certainty, as though an unavoidable countdown is inscribed within our very DNA. Yet, mounting...
Two months ago in a flat in Festac town I met Calistus for the first time. A third year engineering student from University of Benin, we had similar tastes in music, films and women. He had been denied a Schengen Visa third time running...
In different parts of the world, irrespective of religion, tradition and culture, widows are victims of violence and oppression at the hands of close family members and so-called friends, especially their in-laws...
In different parts of the world, irrespective of religion, tradition and culture, widows are victims of violence and oppression at the hands of close family members and so-called friends, especially their in-laws...
The one thing about thoughts in the loo or in the bath is that they are usually very distinct. They are clearer than the ones you have in your sitting room or in your car...
My father had been diabetic and because he was not particularly a man of some means, the disease wore him out. My father became paralyzed losing the use of most of his sense organs...
He had a nice face, his nose was round like mine, and his eyes were smiling at me. He looked like a cool breeze, like fresh rain on a summer morning.I liked looking at his face...his face just took all the butterflies, known and unknown, away...
I have always thought that begging was what people in dire need resorted to when there was absolutely no other recourse. I thought it was something done quietly and humbly out of necessity. I am finding that this is not always the case...
Corruption is rampant in the new electricity companies - six generating companies, 11 distributors and one transmitting - and little is being done to check it...
I love the Igbo tradition but followers and admirers of the Igbo culture will tell you that Ndigbo have this thing for goats and cows, particularly goats...
But we are going to pay Gowon, Shagari, Obasanjo, Babangida, Buhari, Abdulsalaam, and even Shonekan and their families, awesome pensions for life. And what about the families of Tafawa-Balewa, Aguiyi-Ironsi, Abacha and Umar Yar 'Adua? Are they going to get their late fathers' pensions too?
I must confess that I do not always agree with Achebe, especially on his views about Christianity, which like many intellectuals, he sees from a negative and largely misunderstood perspective...
PENCOM does not engage in malpractices, but they have to understand that when one waits for three years and two months to receive his life-sustaining emoluments, he is justified to call on man and God...
It was with considerable agitation and extreme irritation that I read Henry Louis Gates' pedestrian essay on slave trade and reparations, published in The New York Times...
There are many ways through which unbridled unity can be achieved among the Igbo through the creation of a sense of oneness. Arguments from both sides of the divide should be greatly scrutinized and attended to...
Before you pass judgment on me, let me quickly add that I have not given up on Nigeria, but I think it is time we woke up from this slumber to realize that we are sliding deeper and deeper into this abyss...
There seem to be an intensity of energy as it relates to voicing concerns about corruption in Nigeria.These alignment towards a cause however seem to yield nothing over the years but a cumbersome engagement on the part of the writers...
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