Miscellaneous

Some diplomatic observers informed me that when the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, visited Washington, sometime ago, he was not received by the US Secretary of State, but by …

As educated, street-smart and well-travelled as Nigerians are, they seem to have a high tolerance for stupidity, cowardice and mediocrity. Otherwise, how could men like Obasanjo, Abacha, Babangida and Shagari …

This week, I had a taste our gender neglect bitter medicine, and this pushed my hand to publicly gripe about this gender disparity issue against women in the provision of …

Human nature and human relationships are buoyed with conflicts. We can never do without them otherwise human existence would be boring. But when some conflicts become so entrenched and seem …

Katie Price, iconically known as Jordan, always presents me with a moral dilemma. Is it really chic to flash your chesty asset in people’s faces and live and be proud …

It pops up in the media regularly. A hydra headed monster which has posed serious threat to man’s survival. Generally referred to as food and energy crisis, one wonders whether …

Lekan Fatodu affirmed on the publisher’s page that Check Out magazine will liberate travellers from the old ways and chart a new path that will offer ‘more than what you …

I once heard in the mouth of a trusted friend that “expectation is the mother of all disappointments” and the lesson sank in well for I had reneged on an …

The current food crisis can be defined as a combination of decline in stocks of primary or staple food produce and escalating prices of food products…

Most Ghanaians are not expected to live longer than 50. This is what the United Nations, UN, life expectancy Index, 2007 says…

One of the continuing challenges posed by unprecedented urbanization in developing countries, including Nigeria, is the provision of adequate and affordable housing…

One evening I was chatting with Asata outside the student union.  He had, he said, some “bomb weed.”  I had tried weed before and it did nothing for me.  But …

Even the hardest of hearts would be melted by the moving story of Miss Chioma Aribe, the 19-year-old Engineering student of the of the Yaba College of Technology currently waging …

It is not a common occurrence in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to respond to every unfriendly report about the anti-graft agency or its leadership…

A day came. That day was a dark and dreary one. She was gone and the doctors had warned us. But the husband wouldn’t give up his beloved wife…

I visited the web site for Nigeria Vision 2020 today and was shocked at the image that stared back at me – the eye of a Caucasian person!