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The 2014 budget proposal deserves the seal as the gold standard for pork barrel spending. It is a budget of...

... Continue from last week. So I contacted the tailor immediately to make sure she prepares the tsaraba within few...

Don’t speak English like an Ibadan man. Speak with the kind of phonetics that even your mother will wonder where...

I have had several sad conversations in the past two weeks with friends who, like me, are from Anambra State....

Last week was very busy and intense in the political arena and one of the highlights of the week was...

Why does it matter that the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has indicated accounting...

After reading an article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) about how the CEO of Timberland (makers of boots and...

Women are a precious gift from God but there are some things that all men need to know. Women are...

A poor and unemployed member of the church asked God to give him British Airways lock stock and barrel. I...

Parenting is the greatest gift we can hand over to society in our world today, for the home is the...

The centenary of the founding of the Nigerian state is something to be celebrated. But more than that, it calls...

Some weeks ago, I went to meet and speak to a brave 2-year-old girl in Abuja. As I walked into...

“Most Nigerians who wonder why a man four decades your junior still gets to summon you to Abuja in the...

Religion and nationalism are the most powerful forms of indoctrination and, in the name of these two, many injustices can...

The 2007 General Election was declared “a do or die affair” by President Olusegun Obasanjo. Violence, ballot snatching and ballot...

I don't know at what age Soyinka wrote poetry to his first white hairs, but it must have been exhilarating...

Amaechi runs the risk of losing credibility For man, credibility is an indispensable asset, which is also hard won. It...

If I sat in a jury to decide who among the three in the President’s circle is doing the most...

‘Whatever the interpretation, the victory of the Super Eagles certainly boils down to team character and the will to fight,...

The theme of the 1993 United Nations world conference on human rights in Vienna was Women’s Rights Are Human Rights....

“It was on this same sub-region that the world saw a genuinely free and fair election in Senegal...” With its...

The world is expecting me to respond today to the letter you wrote me, so I will go straight to...

At least seven senators of the oppositionAll Progress Congress, APC, on Monday participated in the screening of military chiefs nominated...

In the last two decades, I have modified my views on homosexuality; from outright antagonism to polite indifference. I remained...

Before you start checking your dictionary let me start by explaining that tsaraba is not an English word. It simply...