One of the most life-changing things I learned as an adult is that “human beings are irrational”. Fewer things have changed my understanding of the world than this sentence. It led me into a whole new world of paying more attention to our species; how we think, how we make…

A Long Road to Nothing? Denial works like a powerful drug. If you adopt it as a form of daily defense against reality and the pains it is known to serve, it can appear to prove quite effective. Denial though is never the solution to anything. It serves as a…

One of the most consequential events that has helped to shape the state of the world within the last half-century largely went unnoticed. Apart from the country where this event took place, at the time it happened, it never got the sort of global attention that the fall of the…

My earliest memory of fighting for my right was when I was about 4 years old. I knew there was only one appropriate haircut for me and indeed anyone with a head at the time, the style was called ‘Tyson’. It was named after the then boxing sensation, Iron Mike…

It is imperative that artists and creative professionals get their fair share of their wealth, argues Joshua J. Omojuwa I once received an interesting contract from a publishing platform. Often times when I get a contract, I prefer to browse through before engaging my lawyer. I was distracted by some…

Chiagozie Nwonwu, Fauziyya Tukur and Olaronke Alo could not have bargained for what they got served on social media by a sizeable number of the members of the political group, Obidients, since Wednesday, 11 October when they released a report that did not go down well with the group. As…

Greatness Olorunfemi came from humble beginnings. From the stories she told about herself, she had it pretty tough. That was further compounded by a marriage that turned out to make things worse for her. In the end, Greatness came through all of that to build a thriving professional life as…

If you are one of those rare creatures in Nigeria who for some reason, has not heard of the passing of Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba a.k.a Mohbad, you are in a very good position to teach the rest of us about how to live in this world without being consumed by…

Travelling through Nigerian airports is at variance with doing business with ease… There is no gainsaying that there is a direct correlation between the amount of investment a country can attract and its economic wellbeing. It is not for nothing that one of the indices with which any administration is…