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Your Minister’s Portfolio
Whether you support a minister or his portfolio, I think the hilarious part of all this banter, arguments and insults is the fact that: There is still no light in your house. There is still no water. No ambulance will come to pick you up in an emergency. If one needs oxygen in the underequipped hospitals, he will die. River […]
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Corporal Punishment and School Fees
This is no lie; the system has failed us. The system has failed us. We live in a society where the government has abandoned everyone, leaving people to create their blueprint on how their environment should work. People drill boreholes for water, they hire guards for their security, they buy generators, inverters and solar panels for their electricity and in […]
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Suitors Now Prefer Our Maids To Our Daughters For Marriage
Why not? When we devote time in training the maids on how to cook well, how to clean the house and on good mannerisms while leaving our own daughters untrained. We overwork the maids and they adjust with equanimity because they need us to survive. The maids turn out to manage the indignation and insolence we and our children subject […]
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Africa Must Come To Term With ‘Ignorance’
It is an accepted fact that poverty, ignorance and diseases are the bane of Africa continent, but I can attest here that ignorance is the greatest among them all. Most Africans irrespective of their educational, religious and social standings are ignorant of their health needs. Yes, they often use the clause “Health is wealth” without recourse to its true meaning. Hitherto, […]
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I Think Of Most Things You Think Of Too, True
I want to be rich. I want to be comfortable. I don’t want to be poor too.But…What if I become rich, what happens if I die. What if I become comfortable, will I be truly happy. What if I remain poor, what will be of life.Ops! So if I don’t die, I will surely become old. So what happens.What happens […]
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Family Power Dispensations
In the lifetime of most Nigerian family settings, there are 3 Dispensations of Power. The 1st is the first 25 years in the life of the family (father, mother, children) where power indisputably rest with the father. The 2nd is after the kids have grown and started working when the power shifts to the mother. The 3rd is when the […]
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‘Precisely 1970, We Were Living In Paradise In Benue State’ – Bula
I was born in the post civil war era of Nigeria. Precisely, 1970. When suspicion, lack of trust and dread amongst ethnic nationalities, tribes and religions was supposedly at its highest; where nepotism was the order of the day but never did I see or ever imagined we as a Nation would get to the abyss of this dreaded nation divider […]
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