Last month, a friend of mine, Chidi, told me that he had resigned his appointment as a teacher in a private secondary school in Jos in order to look for greener pasture. Before his resignation, Chidi was the HOD of Languages Department of the secondary school. He taught English language at the senior secondary section […]

Cring! Cring! Cring! #phone rings# “Hello! Chief Bolingo, good morning” “Morning my man, are you still in bed?” “Yes Chief, just had a discussion with my wife….” “Oh! I see….bedroom talk abi? Okay, that aside, I hope you have not forgotten my aspiration for the seat of the president of this country” “Nooo….I have not, […]

I will not weep for you Achebe. Why should I weep, why should we weep? If anyone needs weeping for, it should be us, this generation of hunger and anger. I can’t weep for you Achebe. You didn’t die of hunger and you never lived in hunger. You didn’t die of poverty and you never lived […]

Nigeria’s involvement in the war against Mali’s Ansar Dine rebel fighters was met with cynical skepticism by several opinion leaders and individuals in the nation. It is however in my opinion, the best decisions the Federal Government has taken in recent times.It is a fact that the much dreaded Boko Haram sect has ties with […]

The quantum rise in the incidences of rape, both reported and unreported shows a dangerous trend that is leap frogging. Only some decade or years ago, rape cases were some few isolated incidences. In this part of the world, the word rape was just a mere English word to be found hidden in the dictionaries. […]

From Apartheid, South Africa which was liberated by other Africans has steadily and consistently descended into a state of Zapartheid. If Apartheid was a prerogative of the whites, Zapartheid is a misadventure of the blacks. These were the same people who attracted the sympathy and empathy of other Africans in the brutal days of the white minority supremacists regime of […]

My dad is a very funny dude, or so I think. He tells me that he doesnt know what it takes to be or see an ajebutter until he went to secondary school. My dad says he doesn’t call his father daddy, they call him baba and call his mum, mama. But our generation churns […]

Looking for a job when you are above 35 or have several years of experience under your belt is a whole different ball game from the usual job search for fresh graduates or persons with a few years experience. With the statistics putting the number of currently unemployed Nigerians at 20.3 million according to Dr […]

I may not know a lot about the rules of engagement of combat, but I am certain that one of the fundamental duties of soldiers is to defend their host nation. Ordinarily, soldiers should only be seen on battlefields and barracks, however in Nigeria, the security situation has compelled us to see more Khakis than […]

Precisely a month ago, when we last looked at the on-going French campaign in Mali, whose diplomatic justification before the people of the “democratic” world was the eradication of “insurgents”, and various other “Al Qaeda rebels”, we asked readers, rhetorically, to look at a map of Mali and tell us what they see. We even […]