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One Chibok and you’re gone! No, you’re history!
My fellow indulgees! In case you do not know, India is the largest democracy in the world. It has 1.2 billion…
Our unsung heroes
Times are really changing for the best for Nigerian writers, if you ask me? Why did I decide to pick on them as my…
Kamara- The escape
I have always known that I am more intelligent than the average 10-year-old. Growing up in the palace with my…
…And these were the president’s campaign promises
It is difficult to describe how indulgees came by their poke-nosing character. Believe me when I say they were not…
Kamara- The reunion
She felt the hard cold surface beneath her and there was a stale unfamiliar smell in the air as she opened her eyes…
Everybody now buys Chinese guns and points them at…
Ireally don’t know what this world would become if liberals were allowed to be fully in control of all human…
Laughter of the African man
Some years back, I was lucky to be at a literary conference at the University of Lagos where the late Funsho Alabi…
Fuel Subsidy: What the President knows but can’t bite…
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the man whom, many people around him say would surely contest the 2015…
Tales of tenderness and power
By now, you should be trying to figure out what informs the title of my piece this week. What is it about the…
Bread hawkers
Agege’ bread, named after a Lagos suburb, has over the decades grown into an obsession for many residents and a…
Guard- house entrepreneurs
In the early 90’s, Ibrahim, barely able to take care of himself and his family on a N8, 000 ($46) a month…