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When I saw that story on Linda Ikeji titled “Yemi Alade vows never to lend anyone money again after someone she gave money refused to pay back”, I laughed in Swahili that Sunday morning of 11th April! I laughed because my dad had told me a…

A lot of Nigerians have expressed the wish that the white man stayed longer in Nigeria. They cite the case of South Africa where prolonged colonial rule resulted in their advancing far better than Nigeria to the extent that a lot of…

Guys the best way to get away from all the negative news around Nigeria lately is just to go to the village. I took that advice this weekend and don’t regret it. As I wheeled into our house early evening on Saturday, I saw my…

A lot is happening on social media. While junk things are being circulated around, some other good stuffs are also making the rounds. The video of a woman that was praising her yam harvest caught my fancy and I took it on. She planted her…

The recognition of the power of the youth is no longer in doubt given the attention they have received from the EndSAR protest. While we mourn the souls lost in that mayhem, we look forward to better days ahead for the country as the youth…

Odumeje is a current controversial social media sensation and a lot of people enjoy his comic videos. I call him Oduheje. His name means he leads mein Igbo. What I call him (Oduheje) means he leads them as I insist I am not among those…

One of the things the release of my new book Aladinma eighties to nineties has done for me is to give me the opportunity to visit friends and colleagues that I have not visited in a long time or have never visited before. Like my senior…

If you remember the case of Osa (squirrel) who fell from the tree, looked around and congratulated himself you will understand how Peter Obidike the Author of Aladinma is feeling right now. The Osa on falling down was not acknowledged by…

Aliya is a word that refers to the gathering of the Jews and I first learnt about it reading the book; Israel, a History by Anita Shapira. A gathering of people is what I have seen my new book Aladinma do in recent weeks; at least a…

I wrote an essay in 2009 and left it on my desktop. It was an outpouring of my beef with OBJ’s daughter. No one saw it. But the desire to write my beef down was born with that writing. Then when I relocated to a saner city I starting doing…