Linking the Farmers – Yemi Soneye
Decades ago, oil replaced agriculture as the goose that lays the revenue, thereby ending the relationship between farmers and government. Farmers have remained in rural areas, mainly operating, in smallholding[…]
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Calabar Carnival – A Displeasing Trend
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[…]
AEPB: From street cleaning to morality policing – Alkasim Abdulkadir
By Alkasim Abdulkadir. Abuja based actress and socialite Dorothy Njamanze didn’t bargain for the nightmarish experience she recently suffered at the hands of Abuja Environmental Protection Board AEPB, she had[…]
Kwirkly.com – Online Ad Agency Targeted at Small Businesses Opens
Small businesses and startups need not fret any longer as to where to go to for their branding and advertising needs. Enter Kwirkly.com a full-fledged & online-based brand communications firm[…]
Casino Pentecostalism – Ebenezer Obadare
There is a new game in town. It involves- no garlands for guessing- the Redeemed Christian Church of God. But I err. Actually, it’s not a new game. What is[…]
Nigerian Diaspora National Development Strategy – Call for Contributions
The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) Europe is the European arm of a global Nigerian Diaspora Network. Established in 2000 and registered a year later in England and Wales under[…]
The multimillion naira aviation fraud – Idris Akinbajo
There is clear mismanagement, fraud and abuse of due process in the way Nigeria’s aviation agency is run The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria has been a drain on the[…]
Culture and Society · Literature
A Review of Naija Stories by Whitman
by Anja Choon Naija Stories: Of Tears and Kisses, Heroes and Villains edited by Myne Whitman is a collection of thirty short stories by Nigerians about life in Nigeria except[…]
Culture and Society · National Service
Is Having a Housegirl or Houseboy Illegal? – Ayo Morakinyo
Youths constitute the strongest force every nation has, and with the right orientation they do great things. In Nigeria, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has a community development group[…]
The Problem with Small Miracles
by Emmanuel Iduma So, I was one of the cyberspace moralists who put in word for Okeoghene Ighiwoto, the now famous Nigerian patient who has been ‘saved’. How might one begin thinking[…]