It is no longer news that teenage pregnancy is a personal challenge that is fast becoming a universal challenge through which illiteracy and poverty are recycled. Before now, I used to erroneously believe that poverty is the only reason why teenage girls fall pregnant, but working with young people has opened my eyes to how Read More…
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When a government runs out of ideas
THE news went around. The Federal Government and striking lecturers in the country’s public universities organised under the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, were meeting on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Not a few hoped that the six-month strike by the lecturers would be resolved. But the outcome was as disappointing as the cavalier way Read More…
If Water Can Run Uphill in Kenya…
To what extent does the last presidential election in Kenya foreshadow what is likely to happen in Nigeria in 2023? I am not one to draw undue parallels, knowing as I do that there are different intervening variables and sub-texts which may render a blanket generalisation sterile. However, there are many similarities that signpost the Read More…
Having Amnesty International as lunch in Ukraine
Amnesty International, which is 61 years, having been established in 1961, is up for lunch in angry Ukraine. If you must know, its ‘sins’ are very grave. Those who run the West assume they have Amnesty eating out of their hands. On the other hand, those outside the Western ruling class circles like India, China Read More…
Would he, would he not?
Diary of a Single-Mum When I became a single mom, I thought, is it for me? I kept asking myself, who would now date a single mom? I had been in a long-distance relationship for almost two years with my baby daddy. We broke up a few months after my daughter was born and I Read More…
JUULING/VAPING…(Juuling is pronounced as jeweling)
Parents wake up o, another one is in town, although it has been around for a while now, but recently, it is gaining more popularity and market acceptance, especially among teenagers and young adults as they can use it right under the noses of their parents without them knowing what it is. WHAT IS JUUL? Read More…
Akin Mabogunje: An African institution
PROFESSOR Akinlawon ‘Akin’ Ladipo Mabogunje was an African institution established for all-round development. He is also widely accepted as the Father of African Geography. By 2000, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, was fed up with the National Housing Fund, NHF, which in the eleven years of its establishment had failed to deliver on mass housing Read More…
The Third Slavery
Have you heard the news? About 727 medical doctors trained in Nigeria relocated to the United Kingdom between December 2021 and May 2022. As of November 2021, 8,983 Nigerian-trained doctors were working in the UK. That figure has now jumped to 9,710. Nigeria is the country with the third highest number of foreign doctors working Read More…
Sex As A Skincare Routine
Do you know that some teenage girls are actually having sex as a skincare routine? E shock you abi, lol. Well, as untrue and shocking as that sounds, it is true. Some girls have actually been misled to believe that the reason they have pimples fighting for space on their faces is that they are Read More…
After Ukraine, US fishes for new war in Taiwanese waters
IN Nigeria, there are people who traditionally rejoice at the prospect of war. They are uncomfortable when there are no wars or new territories to conquer, plunder or destabilise. The United States establishment has this same psychological make-up. It appears allergic to peace, and as one conflict drags to a bloody close, it is instigating Read More…