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A Yoruba adage translates roughly as follows: let us for once feign death so that we may know our true friends – those who will cry or rejoice at the…
A Yoruba adage translates roughly as follows: let us for once feign death so that we may know our true friends – those who will cry or rejoice at the…
What will Oga “Grass-cutter” not do, what stunt will he not pull these days to service his huge “stomach infrastructure”? Still can’t recognize him? Our friend with “Idi Amin” frame…
The parasite that ruins a vegetable, they say, is often embedded in its very stem. This is absolutely true of a flying company that recently slipped into severe turbulence. Recall…
When a former gomina graduated from Oyinbo jail recently, his clansmen did all they could to give him soft-landing at home on return. Trust the “guy man” himself, he has…
Once upon a time, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) styled itself the “biggest party on the African continent” destined to rule uninterrupted “for sixty years in the first instance.” Well,…
First, they circulated the news that the Great One had kicked the bucket. For several hours, the nation was on the edge as no one knew what that would entail…
For Jupiter, Recession Is Indeed ‘Just A Word’ Why am I even writing about Jupiter? Well, probably because there is this heavy guilt I feel for starving him the greater…
Getting out of Lagos was a tug of war. I’d been there like forever and there was no other place I knew. At least, not since 1970 when my mother,…
How far can one ever go with making up faces and fixing hairstyles? Well, very far if you were Theodora Mogo. For every young person out there who has ever…
It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy By Michael Abrashoff Reading this gives you a sense of what to do if you’re asked to…