Over the weekend, while Nigerians were mourning actor and comedian John Okafor, popularly known as Mr Ibu, a Facebook post by a pastor trended and brought to the fore the growing distorted brand of Christianity being spread in Nigeria. Using…

If Chief Obafemi Awolowo was alive today, we would be preparing for his 115th birthday which would have come up on March 6, 2024. But that is not to be. Death, the unwelcome, yet unavoidable guest of all time, has…

The report of the Stephen Oronsaye Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies has come to the fore of national discourse again following the directive of President Bola Tinubu on its immediate implementation. Perhaps…

Last Thursday, President Bola Tinubu was in Lagos to launch the first phase of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red Line. For a city that will easily win the title of ‘Congestion Capital of the World,’ a 37km rail project…

Adolescence is a critical period of growth and development marked by various physical, emotional, and psychological changes. Along with these changes, adolescents often face the challenge of coping with different types of health issues, one of the most common being…

I had a funny experience about rats while observing my one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps scheme in Garkawa, Plateau state. In the compound where I lived, someone made ‘kulikuli’ one evening and she gave me some. I put the…

[First published January 5, 2014;] In July 2013, during President Barak Obama’s Africa tour, one of the most enduring images was his encounter with the Soccket ball. It was in Tanzania that he was presented with the invention, a soccer…

Playfulness is a human character that allows a person to change an ordinary communication to extra-ordinary connections which can make interaction enriching, entertaining and interesting. Play is a natural and a social obligation that supports the health and wellbeing of…

From these words of his message to me, this brother is apparently rethinking fatherhood. “Let me tell you why I don’t bother my head about children again. It has to do with what happened at my brother’s burial some years…

The conventional wisdom about beginning a family in your 20s or 30s is being questioned. There are several reasons why women and more and more men are delaying having children until later in life. When making this choice, many things…

I have often wondered about those of us living with sickle cell. By that, I mean, how we cope with our mental health because every crisis could potentially lead to death. How do we come to terms with living with…

Dear Ma, I started reading your column in Saturday PUNCH in 2014 when I was in S.S.2. Your words and warnings always boomed in my ears throughout my undergraduate study! I was able to connect with God and serve Him…

Aaron Bushnell As he did so, he said: “…Aaron Bushnell, I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force. And I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act…

I joined the Florence School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (EUI) because I saw people like Professor Alex Stubb on the university faculty. Stubb was once the prime minister of Finland. The EUI also has a former…

The Dalai Lama, when asked about his observations of humanity, once remarked, “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future…