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Fall, head-gash expose flaws in my footballing skills
I played football at different levels. If you are looking at my picture, in particular at my midriff, and are…
At the coffee shop
Driving through Lagos Island a couple of days ago brought to mind an encounter I had at the coffee shop in…
Now I know why they shove rat poison at an SUV
Okay, so you always run into traffic in Lagos and other major cities in Nigeria – Port Harcourt, Kano, Benin,…
Police road block still persist in Festac
It thought the news had been, for some months now, that the Inspector General of Police had said no to police…
Interest capitalized: N2,461.33k; Maintenance charge:…
I have been shouting for a very long time now, about how our bankers throw all sorts of things in the way of…
Abuja, their Abuja! City in everlasting construction!
Abuja never seizes to amaze me! It’s an interesting cit in terms of organized design and the chaos of what is…
They don’t really care about us
It was 5pm on Monday, when I closed from work. I had to drive through Mile 2 to connect my return journey to…
Police, tinted glasses and return of roadblock banking!
One indulgee came running into the Square Table, shouting in very high pitch and the rest of us thought he had…
The chicken chasers
It was half past four on Sunday evening when our aircraft touched down at Heathrow airport, UK. We were a group…
What happened to all the men?!
The title of my piece this week was informed by a cry of frustration uttered by Aderito Caldeira, a male…
It’s Democracy Day! Yeah! No, it wasn’t!
And so it was that two days ago as you woke up from sleep and put on your mobile phone the tone for text…
The African spirit
As write this, I recall Nelson Mandela’s preface to the book Mandela’s Way – Lessons on Life by Richard…