You might think these two phrases are the same thing, but I put it to you that they are not. This is one of the reasons why I love the politi-com Yes, Prime Minister. In one episode, Jim Hacker explains to Sir Humphrey and Bernard who reads the papers; “I…

As I attempt a review of 2022, it becomes clear that it’s not the exercise it once was. I used to enjoy the packing up of twelve months, the analysis of a neat chapter in a life. …

I have always said that when I marry, I would write my woman a chap that only she would read. Someone has beaten me to that and he removed the read-only privilege too. That is what Babatunde Adesokan’s chap is — a collection of love notes, more like sticky notes…

If you know me well enough, you would know I am a conversation person. Whether I am lending my voice to it, leading it or just sitting and taking it all in, I believe in the power of conversations and this month I have had a number. This month has…

*This is the concluding part of the series. Thank you for reading thus far. Where I am from, the Southwestern part of Nigeria, to say Agbaya is to describe someone who is aged but has juvenile tendencies and displays it in full glare. To be called Agbaya is to be…

While proponents say colonialism brought various economic developments to the parts of the world it controlled, critics note the massacres, famines, and the use of concentration camps by the British Empire, The Independent writes. For good or ill, it brought a new language, sports, and religion to different parts of…

Short, choppy yet to the point, Temiloluwa attempts to shatter your heart in five simple poems — really ironic as the number 5 is usually associated with the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and her Roman parallel, Venus, and the symbol for both was the five-pointed star, or pentagram. …

The longest reigning British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II died on the 8th of September 2022. On the morning of the same day, her doctors announced that the 96-year-old Queen had fallen into a state of ill health and the world started gravitating toward the story. Given the traffic around Balmoral…

Circadian cycle wey we dey manage, you break am up I am fascinated with my sleep pattern, I struggled with insomnia as a teenager, so I started prioritizing sleep as I got out of secondary school. I could count the number of times I went to night class in university…