YOU ARE ‘AS’ GENOTYPE, HE IS TOO. HERE’S AN IDEA… We’ve all seen this scenario before. Boy meets girl (or vice-versa so I don’t piss off gender equality people), they fall in love, begin to dream of a future together and finally, a... Read More
Why don’t you take responsibility?
I am yet to see a people more averse to taking responsibility than Nigerians. It is like the ‘anti-responsibility’ gene gets encoded in our DNA by default. It hardly matters whether we are Hausa, Ibo, Tiv, Itshekiri, Yoruba, Ijaw or what religion... Read More
The Expected May Not Be What You Get – Alibaba GCFR
As shared on his Instagram page: Most times in life, the expected may not be what you get. All watermelons are supposed to be red and juicy inside. Every human being has a heart. The composition of that heart is what you can never tell. You may see a... Read More
America Election and Wole Soyinka Palava
By Elizabeth Joshua. Professor Woke Soyinka is a man I respect a lot. I mean, it’s not every day one gets to bag a Nobel Laureate award and if you don’t see that as an achievement, you definitely do not recognize success or you’re... Read More
Post-side-chick Syndrome
By Nora Oma Patrick. You see ehn, just look around you; you see some of these women that whenever their husbands laugh, they turn to look at the source of his laughter. Whenever their husbands blink, they want to know if he blinked because another... Read More
The Donald Trump Triumph: The World is Surprised? I Am Not
A few weeks ago, I did had a critical internal analysis after some soft political wit with my friend and I rose from it and wrote on my Facebook wall that “I’ll love to have a Trump victory” for reasons that were obvious and this morning, I could... Read More
If I were…
If I were a girl, I will not allow any boy bully me simply because I am female…If I were a girl, I won’t be robbed off my childhood whilst boys play around…If I were a girl, I wouldn’t give in to male advances or let any unruly,... Read More
Sex Will Outlive Nigeria
By Pius Adesanmi. There are very few places on earth and in the 21st century where an administration could announce casually, via a letter to the legislature, that she has decided to borrow $30 billion in foreign loans – from the IMF, the World... Read More
Feminists Can Be Misogynists Too
This is an open letter to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie inspired by her piece “A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions“ Dear Chimamanda, I have to say, I think you are awesome. You’re an inspiration to lots of people... Read More