As one of the defining issues of the retreating year 2013, it is auspicious to put our poor politics aside and recall that the banning of homosexuality in Nigeria through the legislation of the Senate, under Senate President David Mark, ...

Though he was known to many as a stand-up comedian, George Carlin (1937 -2008) was also a philosopher whose words, forget his lifestyle, aptly capture the reality of our today’s world. He might have had the American society primarily in ...

In his well-acclaimed novel, “Violence”, the late Festus Iyayi describes the condition of an average Nigerian symbolised by Idemudia, writing that the character’s “unfinished education, his joblessness, his hunger, his poverty, all these…were different forms of violence” being unleashed on ...

To set the records straight, the title of this piece is inspired by one of the plays of Olu Obafemi, our well-acclaimed Professor of English and celebrated former President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). The play, “Naira has ...

This year, the 29th convocation ceremonies of the University of Ilorin attracted a colossus in person of the former Ambassador of the United States to Nigeria, Mr. Walter C. Carrington, as convocation lecturer. Widely known and admired in Nigeria for ...

Perhaps like others who also might have read it, I was so galled by Dr Okey Ndibe’s recent article published in an online media platform that I felt depressed. The curiosity started from the apocalyptic title, “Scholars as criminals”, because ...

Aesop was believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC but the enduring legacy he left behind is his stories generally called “Aesop Fables”. In one of the fables, we are told of how animals were ...

Despite the torrents of depressing news Nigeria generates on a daily basis, it is gratifying that at least there are some developments, which unfortunately attract less public attention just because of their positivity, that give one reasons to cheer. Such ...

Though many Nigerians claim to practise one religion or the other, in fact, A BBC report a few years ago found them to be “the most religious people” on earth, events have shown that if a global competition were to ...

Though, a considerable amount of ink has been spilled on the desirability or otherwise of the presidential declaration of a state of emergency in the flashpoint states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, the argument is stale as a decision has ...

As a secondary school pupil many years ago, two poems written by two Ghanaian poets held a special appeal to me because of their piquancy, aesthetics and their thematic concerns. I almost knew the two poems by heart as I ...

Perhaps not to be outdone, our federal lawmakers in the House of Representatives this Tuesday (September 17, 2013) re-enacted the show of shame that was staged at the Rivers State House of Assembly on July 9, 2013. The latter date ...