by Simon Kolawole My wife lost her cousin last week. She suddenly started gasping for breath, so it was a ...
by Simon Kolawole It was midnight, not so long ago, when I woke up, used the toilet and returned to ...
by Simkn Kolawole President Muhammadu Buhari is back. Thank God. But seeing his pictures after his arrival on Friday morning ...
Something unNigerian happened in Abuja on Thursday: protesters vandalised an MTN office in an apparent reprisal mission over the perennial ...
by Simon Kolawole Heard the latest? The Central Bank of Nigeria has been selling the elusive dollar to some end ...
by Simon Kolawole You can conveniently call Nigeria the Federal Republic of Drama. Or the Drama Republic of Nigeria. It ...
by Simon Kolawole Sigh. Usually, the most tricky topic for me to discuss regarding Nigeria’s nationhood is religion and ethnicity. ...
by Simon Kolawole There is a prank I usually play on my security guy. Anytime I am out of town, ...
by Simon Kolawole We were stuck in traffic along Lagos-Ibadan road. Then we started hearing a familiar wailing — a ...
by Simon Kolawole Mario Matthew Cuomo, former three-time governor of the American state of New York, was known for his ...
by Simon Kolawole There are many reasons you will never find me in politics — either by election or appointment. ...
by Simon Kolawole The middle-aged man sprinted in my direction, seized my suitcase and began towing me to his cab. ...
by Simon Kolawole Dearly beloved Nigerians, I have a number of proposals today that may interest you. Or upset you. ...
by Simon Kolawole This must be a joke. An armed robber, on realising that his gang’s victim was a born-again ...
by Simon Kolawole And so, the world’s most powerful country will have President Donald Trump at the helm from January ...
by Simon Kolawole At my brother-in-law’s traditional wedding in Lagos last month, I was waylaid by a band of praise-singing ...
by Simon Kolawole Sometime ago — I don’t know the exact date and time — the Nigerian political elite (some ...
by Simon Kolawole There is a confession I’ve been longing to make: I never expected Candidate Muhammadu Buhari to win the ...
by Simon Kolawole Unprecedented. Dictatorial. Needful. Nigerians have deployed different adjectives to describe the overnight search of the homes of “corrupt” ...
With due respect, I would say Nigerian lawmakers are “fantastically” failing to earn their stripes. They love to be called ...
Sadness overwhelmed me — that’s if sadness is not a criminal understatement. Sometime in May 2005, I had taken my ...
Baffling. That’s the word. When Mrs Kemi Adeosun, the minister of finance, publicly canvassed that the Central Bank of Nigeria ...
Yesterday, as her casket was lowered into the grave and I performed the ashes-for-ashes ritual, my emotions ran riot. You ...
Time changes everything. My barber voted for change last year. Which means he voted for Candidate Muhammadu Buhari. After Buhari’s ...
Confirmed. The Nigerian economy is in recession, the first in decades. The official report by the National Bureau of Statistics ...
Why is Nigeria like this — I mean grossly underdeveloped? I’ve been asking this question all my life. And until ...
Roughly 20 months after Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu was nominated as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in ...
In November 2014, I penned an article, “My Grouse with President Jonathan”. I highlighted his major achievements in agriculture, infrastructure, ...
The worst kept secret before the 2015 elections was that Nigeria’s economy was heading for a rough weather. Following a ...
If you were a lover of reggae music in the 1970s, you would certainly know “Time Hard”, a hit song ...