Communication – By F’folu Popoola

In early stages of relationships everyone begins by listening to the other person; we receive their messages and hear their conversations in the context they passed across the message, not how we chose to see things or how we want them to say it....

The EFCC Scapegoat

“Baba how will I get these charges off me?” ‘Don’t bother yourself jare, let small wind blow and then we’d take it from there’ “But what happens afterwards? I don’t want to be like Uncle Bode”   ‘Isn’t this Nigeria? Isn’t...

First Approach – By F’folu Popoola

It’s a guy’s role to step up his game and ask a lady out, (if anyone thinks otherwise I’m unmoved!) A lady who asks a guy out somewhat belittles her value based on man’s psyche, and has made an easy kill for him. Guys are made to work for...

When Boy Meets Girl – By Folu Popoola

Whenever boy meets girl it’s because chemistry exists. That chemistry often times lead to relationships and in most cases, the desire is that the relationship ends in nuptial vows.   When a lady begins to hide her cell phone from girlfriends...

Making Nigeria Ungovernable – At What Cost?

Kano, the biggest state in the north, and whose capital city is the economic center has been overtaken. And most people suppose it is the work of Boko Haram. If it is, what a manner of declaring their stand. 20 bomb blasts going off simultaneously...

What would the ghosts of Kano say?

Scientist and atheists may not agree but most people believe that after death there is a soul that lives on.  Many are convinced or at least hope that the dead continue to, in one way or another, show some interest in the lives and vicissitudes...

Sweet Home Sweet [Guest Post]

Home, sweet home! There is no place like home. As much as I dislike cliches and bumper-sticker sentences, I have got to say it again: Home, sweet home!! Now that I think of it, I wonder who said it first. Maybe Cain when the mark was put on him…I...

The Hope Of Nigerian Youth In This Troubled Nation [Guest Post]

Civilizations through the ages have seen man always confronted with problems and challenges that have redefine and reshape human progress. As man entered into a contract to live a civil existence, the journey towards making meaning has become the...

Your Own Flesh And Blood [Guest Post]

The hardest battle I’ve had to fight so far in life is the battle with my flesh…arrgh!!! when I say flesh, I swear I think of meat, so let me just exchange ‘flesh’ for ‘Body’… I don’t understand...

The Pains and Gains of #OccupyNigeria

“Occupy Nigeria was a test-run to a revolution” -          Kayode Ogundamisi. Citizen journalist So it was that in the wee hours of Monday 16th January 2012, the series of strikes and mass protests called Occupy Nigeria for the most...