If there are 1.2million houses in Lagos State and there are 17-million people, therefore there are at least an average of 14-people living inside a single house. What exactly is a house in Lagos state? Is it the one defined by the Federal government as a house or the one that people define as a house?
It is not bad to mimic one’s superior. But that is only when you accept that you are inferior. In Nigeria, it is often hard for a Nigerian to believe that he or she is inferior. This is good. I have often accosted the young challenging the elderly, the poor challenging the rich, the [...]
What appears to be working elsewhere in the world has become a thorn in the flesh of Nigerian job seekers. The pains and sufferings accompanying ones resolve to acquire a university, polytechnic or any other related degree, after four to six years of sleepless nights with endured patience seems to be the beginning of ones [...]
Whatever happened to intelligence, exceptional talents, abilities, sterling virtues, self-esteem and sense of dignity with which women once easily earned the respect, awe and admiration of most men?
A child is like the rain, useful and harmful. It depends largely on how each is prepared for and contained. We need both to live – rain to sustain life itself and children to maintain procreation and human race. Both come through interlocking mysteries in the sense that human power hardly controls their engendering. If [...]
It is December, the last month of the year. The months of September, October, November and December popularly known as the ‘ember’ months have been regarded by many, as a period of the year that comes with mixed feelings, when the good, the bad and the ugly take place. There is usually a great feeling [...]
The age of the Corporate Beggar is here with us. And with one graduation ceremony after another from our Universities, be rest assured that their rank will only swell
Babbling esoteric nonsense and waxing scriptural, the so-called pastors befuddle and hoodwink the gullible and leave them impoverished and worse off. It is a case of the blind leading the blind
Just in case you’ve been looking for a day to make a change, take advantage of today and change your tomorrow, through deliberate decisions, actions, agreements, or prayers.
Brimming with life, playful and illustrative, Nigerian Pidgin English lends itself well to creativity, evolving quickly and readily borrowing from current events.
