Hauwa was only 12 and couldn’t understand why her parents gave her up to a ‘Foster Father’ or so…
If the cover pages of our newspapers are anything to go by, then the dominant news in Nigeria is not the fight against Ebola swelling threat. It also isn’t the regular thudding of boots on the ground by our soldiers to run Boko Haram aground; on the…
Death. It is the five-letter word that signals the end of life. When the word is used, in most instances, it dampens countenance causing anguish and sorrows of huge proportion to listeners. Depending on how it happens, the story would always have to…
It is fine if you do not know Elijah’s mother. Her friends, business colleagues, family members and customers call her Iya Elijah. Iya, is Yoruba’s word for mother. Life is a big stage and to pull thoughts from William Shakespeare, we are all casts playing roles of protagonists and or antagonists…
2011 cannot be forgotten in a hurry on the African continent. The year started slowly, almost as if the status quo would remain the same, but no, it wouldn’t be. Mohammed Bouazizi, the young man who set himself ablaze in Tunisia at the tail-end of 2011 sparked a nationwide protest…
Last week, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi’s tenure as Nigeria’s Minister for Youth Development came to an end. As predicted by watchers and talking heads, he chose the National Sports Commission as the Minister for Sports over the Youth…
Yesterday, i got an email from Saratu Abiola inviting me to a meeting today, between Paul Fagan, the International Republican Institute’s Regional Director for the Africa Division and selected youth leaders…
Yesterday, i was invited by the World Bank to attend the launch and inception workshop of the Nigeria Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Management Project.
There are three things mankind cannot do without; they are ? food, clothing and shelter. This piece is interested in the first — food, especially since we still have discussions about ‘stomach infrastructure’ lingering in the air. In the last one year…
