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Recently, my boss sent me a video clip made by Nigeria’s popular Nollywood actor cum philanthropist, Williams Uchemba where he called the attention of parents to something he said is becoming a norm in schools, especially in the western world. According to him, most teachers in some schools abandon the job they were employed to Read More…
Today, we roll out the drums for Matthew whose other name is Hassan, the son of Kukah. The young man from Anchuna, Zangon Kataf, heard the Call and, forsaking everything, embraced the sacerdotal commitment of Obedience and Chastity. How does a brilliant lad forsake the world when he had everything at his feet? Wondrous are Read More…
Diary of a single mum Sometimes, I wonder, are new single moms considered sexy? Do they get to enjoy sex too or are their bodies just baby channels? When I started dating this new guy I met eight months after my daughter was born, I was nervous about how he saw me. What did he Read More…
Last week I was invited to speak to a large audience of young girls on the subject of sexual perversion. The aim was to show the girls practical ways that they can eschew sexual debauchery. As anticipated, after my presentation, questions came in and one of those questions is what I want to address in Read More…
The year 2018 was one of self-examination for Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari who flew in on the wings of change had been in power for three years and the situation had simply become far worse. The inflation rate when he came in was 9.01 per cent, shooting up to 15.68 per cent the following year, Read More…
There are only very few instances of humiliation and frustration that can compare with what the average Nigerian goes through in a quest for a US visa. You would think America was Paradise or something close. You would think that the applicant’s very life depended on the granting or denial of that visa. But if Read More…
Peter Obi is hardly a political outsider, but the bespectacled former governor says he is looking to harness Nigerians’ anger with the status quo to power his third-party presidential bid. Obi, 61, has generated substantial buzz among younger voters in Africa’s most populous democracy, where the average age is 18, but the president – and Read More…
IT was like a seamless gathering. Diplomats and academics. Practitioners of two assertive professions: lawyers and journalists. Cultural ambassadors and traditional chiefs. It was evening in Abuja on Monday, August 22, 2022. We were gathered for the pre-independence 60th anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago, T&T which comes up on August 31. The representative of the Read More…
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…
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…
