Even as the Nigerian Election saga continues with cancellations, re-collation, supplementary elections and court cases, the 2019 elections will go down in history as one of the strangest, most confusing and complicated elections in Nigeria. Some will say it was a farce, a comedy of errors and one that reversed the recent trend of electoral improvements […]
Why do Nigerians go to hospitals? Here I go again, asking foolish questions with obvious answers! Why else will they go to hospitals – obviously to get treated, to receive professional and expert medical care! Why else? Why else indeed! The answer is not so obvious! For some and increasingly for most people, it is, […]
In a world full of misery, injustice, inequality, starvation, violence and crime, poverty and lack, it sounds ironical to hear that there is enough: enough resources, enough food, enough talents, enough knowledge, enough laws, enough technology to make our world a just and fair place without hunger, disease and lack. There is indeed enough […]
She brags about her tailoring skills and the fact that she knows her onions when it comes to the art and science of dressmaking. She would think herself a true “Architect” of clothing- a designer and builder of elegant garments. She is a seamstress like no other – reliable, creative and always meets her […]
Everybody knows and even babies know that Nigeria has a power problem! The shout: “Up Nepa!” has been passed from generation to generation till today even when NEPA has changed its named to PHCN and to DISCO yet Nigerians are still dancing with darkness! So what is new? What is there to write about the power […]
Was he chased in the dream by the gods of poetry, screaming at him “where are our children?” that when AKIN woke up the first question he would ask was: “Where are the Poets?” Maybe not! Maybe his question was a form of lamentation on the apparent dearth of poets in Nigeria! A lamentation shared […]
Ify cried! She cried as she watched the film! She shed tears not because the film was too sentimental or emotional. No! Ify cried because the story line of the movie was a replica of a story she had written a few years ago which an “expert” told her wasn’t good enough! That it was […]
“If I am young and right, what does my age matter? -Sophocles, “Antigone” In Nigeria, especially in Nigerian Politics, age does matter. Experience does matter! And experience, we believe, comes with age! In some sense, age is seen as an accomplishment! Little wonder that the usual admonition for young people is “Wait for your turn!” […]
Sometimes when you embark on a journey or a task, you cannot help but ask your self: “Na Who send me?” Who asked me to attempt to review a 646-page book? It is not even a novel but a collection of articles written by a grammar-loving journalist Eddy Odivwri- Someone who believes that “adherence to […]
It takes courage to write a book! It takes greater courage to write a literary work especially now that it’s no more fashionable to read! It takes more than courage to write a poem when people cannot understand prose! Yet people still write! They write Codes! After all, aren’t we in the technology age!? Why […]