Last week while driving home from the usual school run my daughter asked me to guess how much her best friend had in savings. I said €200 and she started laughing her head off.
When I wondered why her reply was “Dad, that’s tiny. She has €3,000!”
In the last few days, Anambra has witnessed its share of bloodletting disturbingly exemplified by the gruesome daylight murder of Dr Chike Akunyili the widower of late Prof Dora Akunyili. …
Yet again the popular anchor of Moments with Mo, Mosunmola Abudu is in the eye of the storm. The allegations against her by Gistlover may appear new to some but definitely not so with many Lagosians that have Al Barney ears.
Aunty Mo must be used to these stories by…
I know Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. He served under me in the military. His characteristics that I know, his behaviour that I know, he has not deviated from them.….But if you read my book, what I said about him is correct. He is not a hot person when it comes to…
Here’s a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don’t worry, be happy
In every life, we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don’t worry, be happy
Don’t worry, be happy now
While Bobby McFerrin’s popular hit song may…
The Nigerian social media space was abuzz yesterday.
Wotapun?
Our popular BBN zaftig accused the eagles of invading her nest at dawn.
She said she was bullied by the red jacket boys. That her mother had a panic attack. And that she was traumatized..her …
She was 45 when we lost my dad. Daddy was the family patriarch and provider. Seven of us were still in school then and my mum was about to leave for her doctorate in African-American studies at the University of Chicago.
She was dealt a heavy blow by death.
But…
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until…
Each of our three Regions is vastly different in many respects, but each has this in common: that, despite a variety of languages and customs or differences in climate, all form part of one country which has existed as a political and social entity for fifty years. That is why…
I once read a story about a lady who hadn’t kissed her husband let alone get laid in two years. They live under the same roof and sleep in the same room (possibly on different beds) because it’s unfathomable to me how that works. The windy narration of their troubles…
