My Tsunami
1. Intro My Tsunami is a tale of blissful experiences of being with a Tsunami, a term for a focused, decent, disciplined, and well-groomed lady....
Discovery With Grace 2
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Discovery With Grace
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From A Myth to A Cure: Vaccinations
From Myth to A Cure: Vaccinations Can a universal cure come out of olden African culture, especially one that originates from mythology? “Nothing good comes...
Dino Melaye Adopts the Pyrates Confraternity
Dino Melaye Adopts the Pyrates Confraternity: A PR Coup? [Former] Senator Dino Melaye – SDM – (Twitter handle: @dino_melaye) on the 4th of August 2020...
Nsibidi: Pre-Colonial Education in Nigeria
Nsibidi: Pre-Colonial Education in Nigeria It is the simplest thing in the world to assume Sub-Saharan Africans were illiterate and uncivilised before the coming of...
The Igbe Religion – A Faith
The Igbe Religion – A Faith Igbe is neither my personal nor family religion. Stiil, I lived in Urhoboland, where it originated and people still...
Morak Oguntade and the Art of Expression
Morak Oguntade and the Art of Everyday Expression After reading Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco a few years back, the...
Jazz Music & the Influence of Yoruba Culture
Jazz Music & the Influence of Yoruba Culture There was a time in the ’60s and ’70s when several jazz musicians of repute had to...
The Tooth of a Toad
The Tooth of a Toad [Ako re’Oghwokpo] There is an old African tale in former times in use as a universal allegory. There was once...
Is My Name Okolo Too?
Is My Name Okolo Too? A new female friend leaves to study in USA for four years after a brief but interesting relationship with a...
Do The Urhobos Need Saviours or Leaders?
Do The Urhobos Need Saviours or Leaders? At the moment the Urhobo nation is both essentially saviourless and leaderless, forget the ethnic bosses. Chiefs Mukoro...
The Urhobos Do Come Last – Mostly in Politics
The Urhobos Do Come Last – Mostly in Politics As ridiculous as it may sound, if Anioma were to be granted a State today, the...
Remembering Ayo Odebisi: His Lessons
Remembering Ayo Odebisi (Paramole): His Lessons It has been one year since Ayo Odebisi went on another kind of going abroad trip. When I heard...
Understanding Akpunwaism
Understanding Akpunwaism Akpunwaism is a cultural reaction to defeat and the subaltern status of an ethnic or regional group within a state. Akpunwaism is unique...
Obasanjo is neither Fulani nor Igbo
Obasanjo is neither Fulani nor Igbo In 2012 an Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) operative intimated to me very intensely that the then President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Uber License: A Nigerian Interest
The Uber License: A Nigerian Interest In the UK and the USA, the spectre of Nigerians achieving academic excellence in institutions of higher learning everywhere...
The “Babangida Must Go” Protests
The “Babangida Must Go” Protests: A Missed Opportunity for Revolution Young, obscure student leaders in 1989 led the best chance of a revolution Nigeria had...
When I Last Saw Simon Hughes
When I Last Saw Simon Hughes Thursday, two weeks ago I had just come out of hospital after a two-week stay there. As a resident...
Why Evans the Kidnapper is King in Nigeria
Why Evans the Kidnapper is King in Nigeria A “billionaire” kidnapper, Evans, is now the new icon shining in the dull skies of Nigeria. One...
Muslim Hegemony Through Education
Muslim Hegemony Through Education We wrote the articles Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? (http://wp.me/p1bOKH-BE) and The Complaints: Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? (http://wp.me/p1bOKH-BT). Many took it as mischief with...
Nnamdi Kanu: Made by Buhari
Nnamdi Kanu: Made by Buhari Today, on Nnamdi Kanu’s release he has become “cause celebre” supreme in Nigeria. He visits and is visited by an...
The Nigerian “Diaspora Paradox”
The Nigerian “Diaspora Paradox” One of the most challenging experiences a Nigerian [or other African nationals] in Diaspora will ever face is encountered within the...
Ibori Won!
Ibori won! James Ibori is both Nigeria and a Nigerian in the most representative of terms. The Ibori Corruption Saga has much less implication for the ex-governor...
Dr Joe Abah: Two Experts, Two Bureaucrats
Dr Joe Abah: Two Experts, Two Bureaucrats Dr Joe Abah, is the Director General of Bureau of Public Service Reforms and academic. In very casual...
Ibori: Innocence By Tribalism
Ibori: Innocence By Tribalism When I read the article titled ‘The Welcome Party for Ibori’ by Simon Kolawole, it was thought-provoking journalism considering the context of Delta...
Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning
Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning The man, Wole Soyinka is forgiving and commuting personally designed punitive sanctions once again. And in the most “magnanimous”...
Learning Applied Science in Schools
Institutions, Habits and Learning Applied Science in Schools By Grimot Nane Written for Government College Ughelli Old Boys Association UK Annual Dinner, Paddington Hilton,...
Fantastic Nigeria: Amaju Pinnick and the Olympic Football Saga
So many Nigerians (particularly those from Delta State) I have come across in the UK very recently appear to be the alter ego of Amaju...
Biafra: A Missing History?
Biafra: A Missing History? If one asks the everyday person from Edo or Delta States, which make up the now-defunct Mid-West region or Bendel State,...
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria?
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? The recent pronouncements made by Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, astonished many. He said he intends to “regulate” religion...
Blood Will Flow In the Streets
Blood Will Flow In the Streets “Empowerment” has a strange meaning in the Nigerian context. It is “the sharing of money” by politicians to clients,...
Fulani Herdsmen are Spies
Fulani Herdsmen are Spies Fulani herdsmen have always secretly been subversives. They monitor and report on activities throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria. And...
Political Ambitions in Diaspora
Political Ambitions in Diaspora: ‘Obasanjo Say Make I Come’ Between 1999 and 2007 there was an acute frenzy of political aspirations occurring among Nigerians in...
Mr President ‘Changes’ From Poor Man to Rich Man
Femi Aribisala is undoubtedly one of the brightest and most effective journalists and bloggers writing out of Nigeria. He is one writer who indeed never...
Buhari’s Choice and the Expected “Fashola Miracle”
When President Muhammadu Buhari won the 2015 general elections, he did so largely with the support of neutral and anti-PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) commentators. Everything...
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Part 2
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Part 2 Not all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiographers, medical laboratory technologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists etc.) married from Nigeria...
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Can the Men Handle Them? It has become increasingly apparent that the most desirable women in the eyes of Nigerian men...
#FreeEse: A Tragedy or Hot Air?
It will be interesting to hear what pundits have to say about the “sexual relationship” between the adult male, Yinusa, and Ese Oruru a 13-year-old...
“Women’s Rights” as Theme of African Union Summit: Really?
The leaders of the Africa Union when in congress to discuss the problems of the continent, the outcomes are predictable. The stuff put on the...
Corrupt Manhood: Bleeding Nigeria
Corrupt Manhood: Bleeding Nigeria It is amazing how much Nigeria’s corrupt officials and their clients spend on sex and women. Girls, ladies and new wives...
Show Us a Frivolous Corruption Petition!
Show Us a Frivolous Corruption Petition! In the arena of corruption, especially at the grand level where billions of dollars are stolen as a rule...
Nigeria in Pieces: Biafra & Kanu
It was a grievous mistake on the part of the Government of Nigeria (GON) to arrest the Biafran secessionist activist, Nnamdi Kanu (See; The Government...
Nigeria in Pieces
When Sir James Goldsmith in his book, The Trap, predicted in the mid-1990s that the nation called Nigeria will disintegrate in a similar manner to...
The Government Has Jumped Up ‘Biafra’
The Government Has Jumped Up ‘Biafra’ The news of the arrest of the man behind Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, by the Nigerian government has turned...
Native Politics: Thieves and Treasures
Native Politics: Thieves and Treasures At the heart of Nigerian politics and the thinking something drives it. It is the pervasive ‘nativity’ that we cannot...
Another Deadline, Another Dead End: Boko Haram’s Turn
Nigeria has had many deadlines foist upon its public through its chiefs governmental agencies as a show of commitment or as a precursor to a...
Why “Anti-Corruption” is a Great Election Gimmick in Nigeria
Nigeria since independence in 1960 has had six democratically elected executives, the most recent being Muhammadu Buhari. The country has also had seven military heads of...
Suicide Rising: The Blind Side of Anti-Corruption
Anti-corruption is raging in Nigeria and governance as predicted is blind siding countless worthy and real issues for governance. Anti-corruption is not an excuse whatsoever...
Solo Mansion Communities in Nigeria
Solo Mansion Communities in Nigeria Development in Nigeria is a narrow focus on brick, mortar and tarmac constructions with imported technology gadgets thrown in. The...
Nigeria’s Brown Envelope Journalists
Nigeria’s Brown Envelope Journalists: A documentary on corruption in Nigerian journalism. Narrated and produced by Nic Muirhead; featuring journalists, Nicholas Ibekwe and Kadaria Ahmed; political...
Empowerment: Euphemism for Corruption
Empowerment: Euphemism for Corruption The word and context of “empowerment” has come to take on in interestingly corrupt or perverse meaning of its own in...
Buhari’s House and the “Pacts” that Hold It Together
President Muhammadu Buhari has a political “house” he heads and it is the recently emerged All Progressives Congress (APC). New houses either collapse or withstand...
When My People Personalise the Truth
When My People Personalise the Truth Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot...
Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0
Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0 The bickering between Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and ex-President Gen Olusegun Obasanjo (Rtd) continues. Sometimes simmering, sometimes crackling, it will never...
Michal Lyons: An Angel We Will Never Forget
How could I or any of the people who had the privilege of knowing (Prof) Michal Lyons ever forgot her for the wonderful and inspiring person and personality she...
Monkey Tail, a Date-Rape Drug in Nigeria
Monkey Tail, a Date-Rape Drug in Nigeria “Monkey Tail,” is an unlikely-sounding moniker. It is a drink made of ogogoro (local gin) left to brew in igbo (marijuana leaves,...
Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness 3
Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness 3 In a most unspectacular reinvention “moment”, Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has publicly declared not only his “forgiveness” but the...
The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man 2
The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man 2 II Taba and Tomos, who were allies and bitter enemies, were working together by themselves on...
National Association of Seadogs: Capone?
National Association of Seadogs: Capone? Wole Soyinka who is synonymous with NAS as its co-founder and most famous member is a literary giant and an...
Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria
Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria In 1953, the Pyrates Confraternity (PC), an all-male campus fraternity, began at the University of Ibadan (then a college of...
Wole Soyinka and Traditional Forgiveness?
Wole Soyinka and Traditional Forgiveness? After innumerable citizens indigenous to Lagos and the South-West region in Nigeria roundly criticised traditional ruler Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba...
Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness? 2
Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness? 2 I must confess I have been keenly waiting for the next Wole Soyinka “moment.” Well, no matter how long...
Response: Culture is Not Costume
Response: Culture is Not Costume: Why Non-Africans Should Not Wear African Clothing http://www.mycoloures.com/2014/10/culture-is-not-costume-why-non-africans.html?m=1 Nneka Okona’s piece on the “wrongful appropriation” of female African dress is an interesting,...
Nigeria After the 2015 Elections
Change: Nigeria After the 2015 Elections by Grimot Nane -Two Lectures – Master of Ceremony – Jide Lanlehin; at the Feast of Barracuda held by...
The Logic of One
The Logic of One The Logic of Booze Whenever Fifties and Rong met up, it always turned out to be a promising event for ethanol...
The Ontology of the African VII: Play and Wound
If a leader or intellectual is not articulating the values and necessities of robust human pride to his people, he or she is a dangerous...
Origins of an Opintar
Origins of an Opintar “Birds got something to teach us all; About being free, yeah; Be no rain… Be no rain…” – Gil Scott-Heron, from the...
One-Time Train Encounter
One-Time Train Encounter Victoria Station has always been an underrated masterpiece of London. Imagine London without it; I won’t. The sun was glaring outside the...
The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man
The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man ITomos was a petite man in his 40s and could easily pass for a young teenager sometimes....
How Does “Fuck” Relate To “Christ”?
How Does “Fuck” Relate To “Christ”? Common to social media, we are witnessing a tidal wave of swear words as ‘acceptable’ reactions. Reactions of disbelief,...
President Jonathan’s Boko Haram Excuse Is Inadequate
When President Goodluck Jonathan claimed he had “underestimated” the Boko Haram insurgency it was the latest in a long series of things he should not...
The Confessions of A Post-Impotent Guy
The Confessions of A Post-Impotent Guy A stirring confession of a man’s anguish and recovery from the problem of male impotence just before he turned...
The Privileged Nigerian Intellectual?
The Privileged Nigerian Intellectual? Whether Nigerian intellectuals like it or not, Europe and its extensions were built with the ideas of intellectuals. I cannot imagine...
A Response to ” Columbus Day? True Legacy: Honoring A Genocidal Maniac”
“I came I saw and I conquered” is often the motto of any conqueror. Conquest is not an easy undertaking, even if the history books...
Literature in Schools Poisoned the “Nigeria Mind”
Literature in Schools Poisoned the “Nigeria Mind” It is easy to deride Nigeria and Nigerians because there are ample bases for it and it’s often convenient; “Nigeria...
End of Oil, Beginning of Prosperity Nigeria 2
End of Oil, Beginning of Prosperity Nigeria 2 On the issue of policies, Nigeria’s problem is in truth not just policies and national planning solutions...
A Response to “War: The Most Profitable Business in the World!”
http://gbengaaborowa.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/war-the-most-profitable-business-in-the-world/#more-153 After reading “War is a Racket” by Smedley Butler, the most decorated and honoured United States Marine, a very slim book, I came to...
President Jonathan, What Are Your Spin Doctors Doing?
President Jonathan, What Are Your Spin Doctors Doing? Hashtag disaster has hit the Nigerian President and it because someone created the unfortunate and ill-advised #BringBackJonathan2015...
The Ontology of the African II: The Youth
The derisory ontology of the African has not gone unchallenged. At the forefront, intellectuals, civil society leaders, freedom fighters, artists, activists, missionaries and politicians of...
Michal Lyons, Academic Extraordinaire (1950 – 2013)
. Michal Lyons, Academic Extraordinaire (b. Nov 1950 Israel; d. Mar 2013 London, England) Michal Lyons was a professor of urban studies at London South...
Rancour: An Ode to A Lost Oppressor
Rancour: An Ode to A Lost Oppressor When I nurse the hurts inflicted on me by friends and brothers within the spectre of brotherhood on...
Spiritual Infections, Physical Cures
Spiritual Infections, Physical Cures: Catching Gonorrhea In A Dream I am increasingly taking the message of James Randi quite seriously, well beyond and above average,...