Many of us make career choices with the best interest of our children in mind. Some of us pawn our kids off to complete strangers to care for them while we endlessly chase the almighty Dollar. We spend less time at home, more at the workplace…

My older brother, Oyaw, lives in New York. In the summer of 2005 he went home to Naija to get married, dragging me along with him. His American girl friend was not told. My brother is educated but stupid…

If Mr. Utomi wants to be the president of Nigeria come 2007, he needs to act like a serious candidate. He needs to sell himself to the people: the men and women on the street, the military and security forces, the political class, the mass media, and to the decision makers of his party and to President Obasanjo. Those he needs to be playing with reside in Nigeria, not in the USA, Britain or anywhere else outside of the country…

How are a great people laid so low and wasted, and made to wear the shame of their enslavement and impoverishment with unconscious dignity…

If care is not taken, immediately after saying “Yes! I do”, you begin to witness the Gorilla in your partner gradually manifesting…

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s Weapon of Mass Destruction against corruption, has just won a major victory in his anti corruption crusade…. He has just secured the impeachment of Mr. Joshua Chibi Dariye, the now erstwhile governor of our beloved Plateau State of Nigeria…

Let us make it categorically clear to the exponent of power shift to the North that the people of the Niger-Delta as well as other stakeholders in this country were not consulted when that so-called ‘gentleman’s arrangement’ was brokered and agreed upon…

Ibadan belongs to all of us. But too many of us have sat on our hands for too long while Baba Adedibu and his goons literally rode roughshod over parts of Ibadan, maiming people, destroying properties and holding the city hostage…

Are Africans – specifically Nigerians – the only people on this planet equipped with a designer yardstick, which measures success in terms of material possessions, educational background and socio-economic status?

Part of the reason why a lot of my sisters are not married and are unlikely to find that Mr. Right who would occupy that special place they have reserved for him is that a lot of them are unusual fans of the Rev Martin Luther King: they are dreamers…

My father’s only moment of embarrassment arose when I asked him about a near miss gun shot at my mother. He stated that it was never meant for my mother but rather for a sinister target he thought he observed at that time. My mother thought otherwise…