by Dami Ajayi Dying young is becoming fashionable. I can’t seem to think of a better kind of death for a creative individual though. Imagine not having to grow grey and stiff with arthritic bones; not having to be carried around or bed-ridden, no form of decline at all. Dying young with a preserved artistic stature is a beautifully sad [...]

  Since I heard about the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi, India has been on my mind. The woman was on her way home from the cinema with a male friend when they were attacked in the bus they bordered. The injures from the attack were so severe the doctors had to remove parts of her intestine to stop [...]

by Enigbe Solabomi On December 27th, I was scrolling through my blackberry contacts when the display picture of one of my contacts caught my eye. It was the picture of a scantily clad lady, nothing left to the imagination. I immediately contacted the owner of the blackberry profile. “What in the world are you trying to show?” Her reply, “I am [...]

Ikhide, Let us be clear. I was disappointed with your comments a few months ago because you apparently deliberately confused two very different issues, as a means to slander our reputation as a publisher. On the back of a blog post by one of our interns, you claimed that we used them to edit our books. In fact, our intern was reviewing a backlog [...]

Regardless of whether it was given to him as a gift by his congregants or he somehow gave it to himself, it’s safe to say that the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor will now be flying in a private jet. He joins Bishop David Oyedepo, said to own more than one, and Pastor Enoch Adeboye who [...]

It was with utter astonishment that the audience at Kofar Sauri Sharia court in Katsina on that fateful afternoon earlier this month, listened to the 12 year old pupil, Sani Musa, charged with theft, tell the court that he had to steal some metal scrap, in order to get money to enable him continue with his studies. He shocked the [...]

A cursory glimpse into any of today’s social media networks such as Facebook or Twitter where Nigerians discuss topical national issues might leave one with the impression that frustrated Nigerians are ready to tear each other apart, with the cyber salvos and hateful comments some throw at each other. Even some erstwhile respectable public personalities haven’t been left out. One [...]

The Mangled remains of the plane, crashed into a storey building. Photo Courtesy: Sahara Reporters As I struggle feebly, to pull myself together from my misery and muster the vestiges of strength to write this, Nigeria reels from grief and mourning as a result of the deadly bomb blast in Bauchi close to a church which claimed about a dozen lives and [...]

Randomly considering tweaking this blog a little to make it more graphic, but a part of me does not want to. I like to keep this clean and minimalist. For pictures, quotes and other randoms, see http://adunola.tumblr.com/ Yesterday, I was leafing through my intelligent life magazine and I always love the ads, I like the attention to detail, for example [...]

“I should have known that ambition and success were not to be expected in an African woman. An African woman should be a good African woman whose qualities should be coyness, shyness, submissiveness, incompetence and crippling dependency. A highly educated independent African woman is bound to be dominant, aggressive, uncontrollable, a bad influence.”                 [...]