Nigeria is currently faced with many problems. If it is not Boko Haram it is the plummeting price of petroleum, or tomato disease, or price of petrol, or unemployment, rape, kidnapping, Niger Delta Avengers, Fulani cattle or Massob and so on. They are myriad. Fulani cattle and their herdsmen have …
I had a job to do in Kaduna and I was determined to do it and catch the afternoon flight back to Lagos. I arrived at the airport early to escape the struggle for a boarding pass having learnt my lesson when, years ago, my wad of five hundred naira …
All over the world, except in communist countries and struggling Third World countries, governments shy away from setting up companies and running them. The simple truth is that bureaucracy usually gets in the way and these companies make losses. A great example is the United States of America. You can …
Ogbuefi! Ogbuehi! Ogbueshi! You hail an Igbo man with any of them and he will be pleased at the high compliment you are paying him. It is a title buried deep in Igbo custom and tradition. It denotes an achiever, successful and wealthy enough to slaughter a cow at will. …
I was just a few months old in London. I had spent the first two days in a University of London Hostel in Holborn and from there moved to the Catholic International Students’ Hostel in Manor House. Finsbury Park was on the other side of Seven Sisters’ Road and provided …
My understanding is that a ghost worker is somebody who draws salary at the end of the month from a company, organisation or business where he does not work. In simple terms he steals money at the end of each month from somebody for whom he does not work. I …
`If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.’ I literally obeyed that Matthew 10 verse 14 Bible injunction and dumped my winter coat, gloves and long pants in the dust bin and happily left London …
Chief Zanda Egede is a sixty-eight year old sugar daddy. He has a wife but she’s now virtually part of the furniture. In frustration she has devoted herself full time to her church matters, Zanda has developed a routine. He kerb-crawls on Western Avenue on Friday evenings picking up young …
A few days ago we hit rock bottom. The minister in charge of power admitted that there was complete blackout from the national grid. That was not news to me. I had spent the last five weeks in my home town where we had not seen a minute of electricity …
During my first year as a student in London, precisely in December 1963, I had been invited by a pen friend, Bessie, to spend the Christmas with her, her husband, mother, and daughter in their farm in Coventry. I found my hostess and her husband very good and friendly and …
