After arriving Lawanson on Tuesday, I didn’t go to school again for the rest of the week. The relocation was so sudden that there was no time to give any official notice to the school. Obviously, the school didn’t miss me but Red House did. I was very good in 100 and 400 metres races. I was excellent in relay …

A former National Assembly member in France, Victor Hugo once said: “No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”. After nurturing the dream for about eight years, the Chief Executive Officer/ Managing Director of Leaders Consult International, Shina Phillips finally unveiled to the media in Lagos his vision to see that deserving minds and brains of …

As I picked the stone, I wasn’t sure what to do with it but the man helped me decide; he looked back and I couldn’t throw it at him again. Instead, I threw the stone back on the ground. I then “had a rapid dialogue with my two legs” (apologies WS) before there was any change in atmosphere. As I …

Ezinne Kufre-Ekanem is the epitome of a multi-faceted woman. She can conveniently be introduced as a woman’s empowerment advocate, an author, a radio presenter and an entrepreneur, among other accolades. An alumna of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Lagos Business School and Strathmore Business School, Kenya, she has won accolades at home and abroad, including owner of the Most Creative …

Alfa Ligali must be right with his Abiku deductive logic. Sometimes, I used to wonder at the kind of affection or passion I had for “street assembly”. I was the one who loved dancing to the songs of “Alumongiri”, following them around the streets, dancing to their “Babiyala” melody with harmonious delight. I was the same person who followed “Ajiwere” …

When I arrived Lagos in 1988 after my National Youth Service Corps in Awka, Anambra State, as a young graduate, I never knew fate would bring me and Ken-Calebs Olumese together. Our first encounter 34 years ago turned out to be the beginning of a life-long relationship that we have nurtured to this day. But how did it happen? I …

I returned from school to find out that Iya Ibadan was sick. She was down with a sudden disrespectful fever. As usual, she resisted every attempt to take her to the hospital. Not even the appeals from Baba Shaki (Mr. Adewale ) and Alhaji Raji that they should take her to Vita Chemist had any effect on her. She told …

The event would start by 6 pm, but about three hours earlier, the host gently walked into the hall. That was unusual as far as many of the people inside were concerned, because the host was no other person than Lagos State Governor, Babajjide Sanwo-Olu. So important did he consider the event that he felt he needed to first peep …

Surulere was a bubbling area in the late 1960s and all through the 1970s. It was full of life and fun, sanity and morality, benevolence and communalism. We were never short of fun. Sometimes, we looked for it. Sometimes, it looked for us. In the morning, we would go to school but once we returned from school and had our …

Immediately Iya Ibadan delivered her homily on: “The GOD WHO sees but cannot be seen”, I was never myself again. The message was too strong for my fragile conscience. Her messages , usually coded and garnished with fables, were like a javelin in the heart of the lion . It was strange that despite my rascality and annoying tantrums for …