Miscellaneous

Sometimes I lose myself in the uncertainty of my place in the world.  What set of traditions and customs in particular make me who I am?  If I abandon those …

By the early to late 1990s, the society of Nigerian intellectuals had become mushy, clay-like, adulterated, corruptible, and puerile. It became a laughing stock…

In present times, advertising via whatever means, has gone highly cerebral while scintillatingly appealing to all the senses of already captured or potential customers…

In recent times, our mail boxes are inundated one time or the other with tons of urban legend messages that heed us to watch out for rat faeces-infested coke cans, …

“I do not regret returning to this country when I did. We had goals, we were encouraged by our vision of creating a better world. But I regret what Nigeria …

The human mind works in funny ways and it helps if you can just exercise it; stretch it a little bit, for one practically useless purpose…

The title of this piece which has nothing to do with the global food crises may as well have been Begging for Bread at Shoprite. Yes, that’s what they make …

I think that the moment we move away from discussing our social, economic and political issues and get into attacking personalities, that we will no longer be any different from …

Within the African continent, contagions of the intellect, mass hysterias and crippling urban legends are common. In one country after another, there are confounding tales of everything…

Sheep is an animal with a challenging intellectual deficit. Have you seen how they cross busy roads? Young minds should aspire to be goats. A goat believes in itself. It …

Superstition, poverty and ignorance accounts for why, many decades after many societies have progressed, the African life is still loaded with primitive passions and preliterate conditions…

What is it that causes the FRSC to spend weeks on end to process issuance and renewal of drivers’ licences?

Child worship and self advertisement among Nigerian parents are definitely on the rise while common sense and good manners are on the decline…

The sudden passing of one of the doyens of legal education and vast array of jurisprudence in Nigeria, Prof. Jadesola Akande came to me as a rude shock…

‘My great-grand parents were taken to Brazil during the slave trade. Today, my family house in Brazil is Abule-Bamgbose in Bambgose Street in Salvador, Bahia. My cousins live there. Brazilians …

It may seem that the provision of infrastructure, particularly affordable and decent housing, security of lives and property, adequate social amenities, etc., are key to satisfying the demands and tastes of …