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- Road To Interview
  - Road To The Interview April 2018
    
    Why They Want Buhari’s Job This month, we decided to corner the talk of the town: the country’s top job in 2019. The next presidential election may be the one in which a record number of...
  - Road To The Interview March 2018
    
    For the first time in the nearly three years history of this magazine, we decided to do something different. The last 23 editions have been interviews with individuals, mostly influential office...
  - Road To The Interview
    
    Countdown Begins…. Even though he had conducted 178 small-scale elections, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, still has his biggest test...
  - Interview February 2018
    
    Colours Of Love In the spirit of the Month of Love, we have put together an edition with every interview a potential headliner. We had almost decided on an all-female edition, with the...
  - Road To The Interview
    
    If you have kept abreast of all the intrigues and controversies in Buhari’s government since inception, you would, just like us at The Interview, be interested in Malam Abubakar Malami, the...
  - Road To The Interview 21
    
    How does a warrior recharge in-between battles? Perhaps, by recounting the winning strategies and contemplating his next killer moves? We reckoned so, too. And so we thought there was no...
  - Amaechi Killed Rivers, I’m On A Rescue Mission
    
    We had pencilled him in a few months ago, but somehow, he disappeared from our radar. Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is a stalker’s nightmare, so we had to find a way to smoke him out. After...
  - Some Memories Never End…
    
    Out of the five governors of the South South, Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State is the biggest newsmaker. It’s not so much because Rivers is the second biggest producer of oil in the...
  - The Road to the Interview
    
    The written request by The Interview was dated January 26, 2016, but that letter never really left the drawer, so it was impossible to get an interview with the founder of the Movement for the...
  - The Feud Within
    
    While the country is riveted on the so-called quit notice by Arewa youths for Igbos to leave the north by October 1, we picked up a lead that all was not well inside the ‘House of Biafra’ and...
  - The Struggle Continues…
    
    Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has known struggle all his life. Whether in the textile industry where he challenged the status quo as a mere factory hand, as the national leader of the labour movement in...
  - What Does Kukah Have In Common With Jimmy Cliff?
    
    He is the closest thing to a Nigerian Desmond Tutu, a voice that can be depended upon to speak truth to power, however inconvenient. Yet, last year when we first contacted Bishop Mathew Hassan...
  - Masari’s Test
    
    When people say that still water runs deep, Aminu Bello Masari might just be the one they have in mind. The former Speaker of the House of Representatives (2003-2007) and gofKatsina State has the...
  - Two rounds with President Muhammadu Buhari
    
    Our first attempt was nine months ago. That was when President Muhammadu Buhari was planning to mark his 100 days in office. The special adviser to the president on media, Mr. Femi Adesina, had...
  - The choice of Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, for this edition was no less
    
    "When would you feature a woman on The Interview cover?" This well-meaning question has repeatedly come from not a few of our loyal readers and ardent followers. Have we been able to...
- Main Interview
  - How Buhari Will Return To Aso Rock And Why – Festus Keyamo
    
    In this interview, Festus Keyamo, the Director of Strategic Communications for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, speaks at great length on a range of issues from why he accepted to serve...
  - Buhari Has No Chance Of Re-election In 2019 – Datti Baba-Ahmed
    
    Former House member, former senator and Pro-chancellor of Baze University, Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed , has an unfinished business - an aspiration for the country's top job. In this interview he...
  - The Fight Against Corruption Will Start Inside My Government – Kingsley Moghalu
    
    Perhaps one of the most cerebral candidates to throw his hat in the ring lately, Kingsley Moghalu, spoke with The Interview about his years at the Central Bank of Nigeria, his role in the...
  - Buhari Is Done – Omoyele Sowore
    
    In one of the most extensive interviews yet, the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, told us why he is taking a shot at Nigeria’s #1 job and what Nigerians...
  - I Won’t Go Back To Dapchi School – Senior Girl
    
    A year two senior student of the Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, has said she will not return to the school even after Boko Haram returned nearly all 110 students kidnapped from...
  - Why I met Maina And What Buhari Knew – Malami
    
    The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said he had no regrets meeting with the fugitive former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pensions,...
  - Atiku’s Coming To PDP Does Not Exclude Me From Running – Makarfi
    
    The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said he could still contest the party’s presidential ticket in spite of the defection of former Vice...
  - Good Plumber Better Than Badly Trained Lawyer – Prince Adeyeye
    
    Prince Gbadebo Adeyeye, a US-based Public relations expert, is the proprietor of Crown Heights College, Ibadan, a school patterned after the US education system. In this chat, he tells The Interview...
  - Amazing Story Of Pharmacist Turned Solar Energy Provider – Vera Nwanze
    
    Vera Nwanze, a fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has enjoyed a varied career that has seen her receive numerous awards for excellence over the years. Having paid her dues in the...
  - What We Are Doing To Develop Young Role Models
    
    Furera Isma Jumare is a forwarding thinking Nigerian woman and development activist. She tells The Interview about the special initiative her NGO has thought up and implemented in promoting peace,...
  - What You ShouId Never Say To Domestic Violence Victims
    
    Olubunmi Ajai Layode, founder of Greenlands Assistance Haven Foundation, is a former victim of domestic violence (DV) who started the NGO to provide emergency shelter to people whose lives are in...
- Why I Am Talking
  - Why I’m Talking
    
    I am granting this interview because I have read copies of The Interview. I like your professionalism and the reach. I believe it is a veritable tool for us to reach out to as many Nigerians as...
  - Why I’m Talking
    
    The need to carry the public along within the context of public interest as against individual interest is my great motivating factor for granting this interview. We must understand that the...
  - Why are you talking to The Interview?
    
    I’m talking because it is right to tell the PDP story through the right magazine. There has been a lot misunderstanding as to the position of things. The magazine is well respected and widely...
  - Why I’m Talking
    
    The Interview is a respectable medium for dissemination of information and having been a public servant, one is under obligation to share many things that you came across that affected your...
  - Why I’m Talking
    
    One would have to be a fool to miss the chance to be heard in such an impressive and authoritative outlet.
  - Why I Am Talking – Ibrahim Magu
    
    It is important to offer Nigerians and global stakeholders in the anti-corruption campaign a rare glimpse of my persona and driving force in this delicate assignment. There are no ambiguities...
- My Wish List
  - My Wish List
    
    A more united Nigeria. A country where all the six geo-political zones can easily produce the President To see all my children grow up and excel Long life and God’s continuous...
  - Wish list
    
    That the 2019 elections will be conducted peacefully and that it will be a consolidation of the 2015 general elections That the 2019 elections will actually be better than the 2015...
  - Wish list
    
    My greatest wish is to see a Nigeria that is prosperous. A Nigerian that stand in a distinct and prominent position in the comity of nations To see a Nigeria state where all the indices of...
  - My Wish List
    
    To see an end to violence in Nigeria To see a Nigeria free from religious bigotry. To see a country where everyone can pursue their dreams unencumbered by narrow religious or ethnic...
- Photo Story
  - Annie In Pictures ‘II’
    
    Banc & All Printing and Publishing Company, publisher of The Interview, held its first anniversary and public lecture on Tuesday, September 6 in Abuja. The lecture, entitled, “Why startups...
  - Annie In Pictures ‘I’
    
    Banc & All Printing and Publishing Company, publisher of The Interview, held its first anniversary and public lecture on Tuesday, September 6 in Abuja. The lecture, entitled, “Why startups...
OTHER INTERVIEWS
- Away From Home
- Next Big Move
  - My Life As Pro-chancellor And My Years At The Guardian, Daily Times – Yemi Ogunbiyi
    
    The Pro-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University and former media guru, Dr. Ogunbiyi, speaks of his odysseys as academic and journalist You were appointed Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of...
  - Buhari Should Imitate Mandela, Not Mugabe – SKC Ogbonnia
    
    Dr. SKC Ogbonnia is the Chairman of First Texas Energy Corporation. Before then he had served in other leadership positions at First Texas Energy, including Executive Vice President. An adjunct...
  - How To Make Mortgage Work For You – Charles Inyangete
    
    Prof Charles Inyangete is the managing director/Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC). He tells The Interview about the housing financing sector and how the outfit is...
  - The Real Reason I Won Olympic Gold – Chioma Ajunwa
    
    Twenty years ago, nobody reckoned with Chioma Ajunwa, especially after her early trials in her athletics career. That was until this woman of history won Olympic gold medal at Atlanta, USA, the first...
- Secret Sauce
  - Our Approach To Mental Health Is Like Sitting On Pressure Cooker – Cheluchi Onyemelukwe
    
    Dr. Cheluchi Onyemelukwe is the executive director of Centre For Health Ethics Law and Development. Onyemelukwe, a lawyer with expertise in Health Law and Policy, in this...
  - It’s Easier To Be Trapped By Traffickers Than Most People Think – Bukola Oriola
    
    It’s Easier To Be Trapped By Traffickers Than Most People Think – Oriola, Victim, Shares Experience Member of the US Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, Bukola Oriola, speaks on the...
  - My Biggest Challenge – Mo Abudu
    
    Mo Abudu is popular for her infotainment talk show,Moments with Mo, but that’s not the only thing going for her. Her entrepreneurial spirit saw her leave the serene security of a corporate job in...
  - Most of Our Leaders are Not Prepared To Lead – Linus Okorie
    
    Mr. Linus Okorie is the president and founder of Guardians of the Nation International, a leadership capital development organization. He speaks on the journey of developing youths for leadership, a...
  - I Won’t Quit Until Nigeria Produces Someone Better Than Me – Funke Oshonaike
    
    Funke Oshonaike’s name is almost synonymous with female table tennis in Nigeria. She seems to have been around forever, a cat with nine lives in the game, winning many laurels in Africa and in...
- She Maestro
  - People Use Religion To Oppress Women – Mufuliat Fijabi
    
    Mufuliat Dasola Fijabi has been a women’s human rights advocate almost all her adult life. From her days at the Baobab for Women’s Human Rights where she fiercely advocated for gender...
  - How Elections Work In Nigeria – Aisha Osori
    
    Aisha Osori always wears different hats at the same time. But if you call her a good governance and development activist, you won’t be far from the mark. Aisha, whose book, Love Does Not Win...
  - Many Nigerian Women In Sexual Bondage – Iheoma Obibi
    
    Iheoma Obibi , a feminist, writer, international development worker and consultant is the Creative Director of the adult shop www.myintimatepleasureshop.com She tells The Interview how...
  - Amazing Story Of Pharmacist Turned Solar Energy Provider – Vera Nwanze
    
    Vera Nwanze, a fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has enjoyed a varied career that has seen her receive numerous awards for excellence over the years. Having paid her dues in the...
  - Quiz:What Is The Best Gift For A Slum? – Betty Abah
    
    Betty Abah has many feathers to her cap: a journalist, writer, feminist, child rights activist, charity worker and champion for the empowerment of the underprivileged. In this revealing interview,...
  - Love Suffers Under Recession – Bunmi Sofola
    
    Bunmi Sofola is the popular relationship counselor-columnist at the Vanguard Newspaper. In this interview, she speaks about her work, the challenges that relationships face in a time of economic...
  - I Tell Religious Leaders Who Want Rape Forgiven To ‘Go To Hell – Mrs. Itoro Anaba-Eze
    
    Call her a freedom fighter or call her a women’s rights activist and you would be right on both counts. Mrs. Itoro Anaba-Eze is anti-rape advocate of national and international repute. In this...
- Winning Edge
  - I don’t let bullying slide – Toyosi Ogunseye
    
    Ms Toyosi Ogunseye, one of Nigeria’s best investigative journalists, was recently appointed the head of West Africa for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Ogunseye who has won over 25...
  - I Have Had My Crying Moments – Maureen Obaweya
    
    How does a startup survive in a recessed economy? How does a local brand ensure it can compete with its internationally known counterparts? The answers to the foregoing questions and more are what...
  - My Daily Trust Story – Ishiaq Ajibola
    
    To describe Alhaji Ishiaq Ajibola as achievement personified is to say the obvious. This co-founder of Daily Trust Ltd, one of the most successful newspapers in Nigeria, and certainly the clear...
FEATURED
- Books That Changed My Life
  - 13 Inspiring Autobiographies Everyone Should Read
    
    This edition we bring you 13 amazing stories told firsthand by their owners. It’s a roll call of greatness as achieved by different men in various fields. This is a collection of exciting...
  - 17 business books You Should Read This 2018
    
    How can you get ahead in an ever changing business environment today’s world present? We bring, for your reading pleasure, the latest books on business strategy, all published within the first...
  - 12 Must-reads For Women’s History Month
    
    To celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month this March, we bring you 12 great reads as recommended by 12 female authors. These women share the books that inspire them, the...
  - 13 Contemporary Novels All Feminists Should Read
    
    Looking for a great read written by the finest feminist minds you can get? In this edition we present to you 13 novels as listed by www.bustle.com. These books and others bear clear witness to...
  - Top 10 Books For This Christmas
    
    Nothing quite celebrates the feeling of this beautiful season like an engrossing and wonderful book. Many stories have been written about Christmas and the accompanying festivities, but very few of...
  - Books That Will Help You Mourn
    
    It’s true that we all crave constant happiness. But there will always come a time when that is impossible, especially, when someone close passes. Below are listed some highly recommended grief and...
  - Eight books to read before you get married
    
    Relationships are personal. You can read 100 books about love and marriage and still be surprised to learn that your spouse never makes the bed, but has a weird thing about organizing the...
  - 22 Books Everyone Should Read During Divorce
    
    Continued from last edition Last edition we featured the first 10 of the 22 books. Here we are with remaining 12. No divorce comes easy to the principal parties. Nevertheless, there...
  - Top 10 Amazing Reads For June
    
    Looking for Amazing books this month? We present you 10 picks from Amazon by the Business Insider team. Hope you enjoy them as much the team did. Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost...
  - 11 Books To Help You Navigate Workplace Challenges
    
    It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy By Michael Abrashoff Reading this gives you a sense of what to do if you're asked to take over a problem crew...
  - 10 Business Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read in 2017
    
    Here’s a selection of 10 must-reads that business experts think have the potential to transform your business and take it to the next level this year. Shoe Dog By Phil Knight A Bill...
  - 17 Books Everyone Should Read, According to Bill Gates
    
    While Bill Gates has a schedule that’s planned down to the minute, the entrepreneur-turned-billionaire-humanitarian still gobbles up about a book a week. Aside from a handful of novels,...
- Icon Masterclass
- Interview Confidential
  - Interview Confidential
    
    Raw deal for the old hunter According to a saying, feud by siblings in their latter years often turn out the most intractable. As it is with those bound by blood, so it will seem with old...
  - Interview Confidential
    
    Life Imitating Art? Give it to him; Dino Melaye is a politician with the creative flair. Shortly after falling out with his political ally turned foe (Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi), his musical...
  - Interview Confidential
    
    King and the exuberant Prince When “Mai Gaskiya’s” heir was involved in a serious freak highway accident the other day, opinions were understandably divided in the land. Whereas the...
  - Between PMB and killer herders
    
    To say PR experts have begun a salvage work on President Muhammadu Buhari lately is to restate the obvious. What with his increasingly politically correct rhetorics to re-connect with his 2015 base...
  - Interview Confidential
    
    He worked hard, played even harder That he was a brave hunter who dared to tread where even angels feared is not in doubt. When the Yankees seemed to have missed their way at the height of the...
  - Oga Jona and his feuding Amazons
    
    Being a man of power is surely magnetic enough; adding dashing look is a killer. This is the only reading we can make of the revelation in a new book by ace journalist and spokesman of APC, Bolaji...
  - 24m Yankee cowries for 419 consultants
    
    With the new Sheriff in town practically tightening the noose on looters and plugging the avenues by which they siphon public funds, some public officials are getting very, very creative these day. A...
  - Between Trump, Kongi and OBJ
    
    With the United States more or less unraveling today over President Donald Trump's eccentric governance style, a statement by his opponent in the 2016 polls, Hillary Clinton, surely comes to mind: "A...
  - Edo’s bizarre politricks
    
    From Edo, the acclaimed heartbeat of the nation, it seems to be one bizarre tale after another these days. The other day, it was the story of a herd of cows chasing pupils from a public school and...
  - The 11 Buhari Pictures And Fayose
    
    We have been trying to find out whether it is indeed true that Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, has 11 pictures of ailing President Muhammadu Buhari which he threatened to release like a time bomb....
  - Days Of The Long Knives
    
    After Senator Ademola Adeleke defected from the APC and defeated the candidate of Governor Rauf Aregbesola in the recent senatorial by-election in Osun State, the losing side has wielded long knives...
  - Again, Eko For Show!
    
    When the grandmaster of Lagos politics said he might be contesting in 2019 if President Muhammadu Buhari is not running, not a few thought he was grandstanding. Is Buhari running? Apart from Minister...
  - Na Only Acting Presido Waka?
    
    Busybodies who would rather inquire about when President Muhammadu Buhari would return than pray for his recovery after over 70 days of absence from work are at it again. They are not, like the...
  - Our neighbouring Commander-in-Thief
    
    The biggest demon confronting the Nigerian authorities as they try to tackle smuggling is so daunting; Nigeria doesn’t exactly know how to deal with it. Sources close to the country’s western...
  - Day Gay Man Mingled With Donald Trump’s Wife
    
    Just how ludicrous the world is becoming on account of sexual orientation and categorization was again on display at the recent NATO summit in Brussels. Normally, heads of state attend with their...
  - The great lobby
    
    A Yoruba adage translates roughly as follows: let us for once feign death so that we may know our true friends - those who will cry or rejoice at the news of our passing. The above saying is quite...
  - Grass-cutter and the oily pie
    
    What will Oga "Grass-cutter" not do, what stunt will he not pull these days to service his huge "stomach infrastructure"? Still can't recognize him? Our friend with "Idi Amin" frame at the Rocky...
  - Captain Judas
    
    The parasite that ruins a vegetable, they say, is often embedded in its very stem. This is absolutely true of a flying company that recently slipped into severe turbulence. Recall that the Oga...
  - Jailbird and his Jezebel
    
    When a former gomina graduated from Oyinbo jail recently, his clansmen did all they could to give him soft-landing at home on return. Trust the "guy man" himself, he has been acting up the script,...
  - Evolution of PDP
    
    Once upon a time, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) styled itself the "biggest party on the African continent" destined to rule uninterrupted "for sixty years in the first instance." Well, man...
- Marketplace
  - Making Money While Solving Youth Unemployment – Tunji Awonusi
    
    Let me start my column by commending the efforts of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osibajo, in shining light on the youth unemployment time bomb waiting to explode in the country. It...
  - Multi-level Marketing And Pyramid Schemes: An investor’s Perspectives – Tunji Awonusi
    
    According to Wikipedia, Multi-level marketing is a strategy that some direct sales companies use to encourage their existing distributors to recruit new distributors by...
  - Play it safe with shares and properties investments
    
    By Tunji Awonusi (Marketplace) Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. (Proverb 13.7) When my editor in her usual way sent me...
  - Planning ahead could save you money this Christmas!
    
    I can’t believe it’s that time of the year, AGAIN. Well, time flies, that’s for sure. The good thing about Christmas is that we all know when it comes. It’s not an event that happens one day...
  - EDO STATE IN A HURRY TO DEVELOP AGRICULTURE AND CREATE JOBS
    
    When my good friend, Benedicta Attoh, a proud Edo woman and the immediate past secretary of Etsako East local government saw my last article for The Interview magazine, she promptly challenged me to...
  - APPRENTICESHIPS: THE NEW HIGH-POWERED ROUTE TO QUALIFICATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    
    Nigeria’s struggle to create jobs for her teeming unemployed youths is getting worse. New data published by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) pegs the unemployment/underemployment...
  - THE NEW SOFT POWER: WAY TO GO FOR NIGERIA
    
    What we have done in the last four editions of the magazine is to X-ray what has worked for countries who understand the workings and contributions of the Diaspora in the development matrix. We have...
  - The New Soft Power: Chinese Diaspora
    
    The biggest, by far, of the diaspora influence in their home country politically, economically, socially and technologically is the Chinese Diaspora. The Chinese Diaspora goes back hundreds of years...
  - THE NEW SOFT POWER: ISRAEL DIASPORA
    
    Tunji Awonusi writes on the powerful influence of the Jewish Diaspora in advancing the socio-economic wellbeing of their home country and how Nigeria can tap into this invaluable resource to bail...
  - The New Soft Power: Irish Diapora
    
    I have decided to continue with our series on the new soft power and I plan to share with our esteemed readers the story and successes of the Irish diaspora. The Irish story is very personal to me...
  - The New Soft Power: India Diaspora
    
    What I planned to do in the next six editions is to discuss in details how the big four (Israel, India, Ireland and China) have used their diaspora to develop their host country and their country of...
  - Going Above And Beyond With Event Planning – Tunji Awonusi
    
    When in June 2015, my friend Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Wadada invited me to join the team to help plan and organise the maiden tournament at his newly commissioned Keffi Polo Ranch in Nasarawa State,it opened...
  - Nigerian Stock Market: What’s In It For You In 2016? – Tunji Awonusi
    
    I was invited to the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, a campus reputed to be one of the most beautiful in the whole of Africa, to give a talk to the Junior Chamber members and one of the...
  - Nigeria In 2016: Opportunities Abound – Tunji Awonusi
    
    President MuhammaduBuhari presented the 2016 budget of N6trillion to the National Assembly on December 22, tagged the ‘Budget of Change’. The late composition of the cabinet affected the...
- Photo Documentary
  - Taste of Badagry Diaspora Festival
    
    The annual Badagry Diaspora Festival is a unique Pan-African celebration using Badagry as a mini Africa. The town played a significant role in the development, growth and the eventual abolition of...
  - Keeping up with Jabi Lake Fitness Buffs
    
    Call it the positive fallout of the city’s well-designed streets with clearly mapped out pedestrian paths and you will certainly be right. Truly, Abuja can boast of many fitness enthusiasts. You...
  - Revisiting the Slave Trade Era
    
    History records that slave trade began in Badagry in 1473 and gained prominence between the 16th and 18th Centuries. It grew to an important commercial centre flourishing on the export of slave trade...
  - BASS: Investing In Our Collective Future…..One School At A Time
    
    For the pupils, teachers and management of Kubwa Junior Secondary School, Abuja, Wednesday, February 17 2016 was a day like no other. Not Only was it different, it was refreshing so. On that...
- Citizens Press Review
COLUMNS
- Guest Columnist
- Azu Ishiekwene
  - The Art Of Living In The Present – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    I have always thought it was the best way to live: one day at a time, moment by moment. But somehow, not for me. Maybe it has something to do with my job. Journalism feeds the avatars that...
  - What Happened to Mama Taraba? – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    I had to read the story twice to be sure that the minister had not overdosed on the remedial political treatment she received at the hands of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All...
  - The Fall And Rise Of Portugal – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    I’ve been to Lisbon before, years ago. Twice in fact. The first time was by proxy, an emotional trip of sorts. At the time I was the Chair of the CNN Multichoice African Journalists of...
  - Obasanjo’s Roadshow And Buhari’s Forgotten Task – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    After weeks of shadow-boxing, the gloves are finally off between President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo’s roadshow to drum up support against...
  - APC Makes PDP Party Of Saints – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    Offices of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the country are still littered with broken bones, bloodied faces and shredded tallies from the party’s ward congresses last weekend. In...
  - INEC: The Art Of Kicking The Leg – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have a rough ride this week, over a matter that is, in the strict sense, not its business. After weeks of investigation, this could be the...
  - Another Comedy Of Shame – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    Legislative rascality has a long, chequered history. Perhaps one of the most dramatic in the Senate in the last 18 years happened on the watch of Chuba Okadigbo, when former President Olusegun...
  - The Sexploiter And His Cousins – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    Afeez Baruwa could be on his last mile to jail. Or he could be going home a free man. Three years ago, the former lecturer in the department of Accounting at the University of Lagos...
  - What Does Buhari Owe Them? – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    Governor Yahaya Bello does not need to jump into the fire, yet. The Kogi State governor who had, in fact, sprained an ankle in what might have been a practice match for the big leap, was saved the...
  - To Kill 29 Birds With Two Stones – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    The All Progressives Congress (APC) has no one but itself to blame for the back-and-forth with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the "lists of looters" it released last week. After the...
  - Bill Gates, TY Danjuma And Street Life – Azu Ishiekwene
    
    For a government that has swallowed more than it can digest, last week’s extra portion from Bill Gates and TY Danjuma worsened its constipation. If Aso Rock knew in advance what Gates...
  - Tears On The Red Carpet
    
    “The child is better dead than lost” – Ukwuani Proverb My children grew up staying mostly with me. They did not go to boarding school and even when they went away on holiday, I cannot...
  - Dapchi: Dangerous Example Of How Not To Help Boko Haram, By Azu Ishiekwene
    
    It’s like a tale from fish-wifery told by moonlight: how Boko Haram entered a Nigerian town as villains, kidnapped dozens of schoolgirls, and 32 days later returned them to the same town as...
  - Last Woman Standing And The Return Of Strong Men, Azu Ishiekwene
    
    The exit of Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson from office in January at the end of her second term as Liberian president left Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the last African woman president standing. In a...
  - Pains Of Heartbreak
    
    This time three years ago, we were madly in love. After nearly five years of a scamming, loveless relationship we thought we needed a break badly – a change that would, hopefully, usher in a...
  - Sex And The Perils Of Office
    
    Sex has always been a staple of US politics. In recent times, however, this subject has gripped that country in an interestingly new way. After American voters ignored allegations of...
  - What A Cow Says About The President
    
    There was a video of President Muhammadu Buhari that shocked me recently and undermined my confidence in his ability to end the deadly attacks by Fulani herdsmen. It was not the video of him...
  - What Is Happening To Buhari?
    
    The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, otherwise called Fulani herdsmen, could be the undoing of President Muhammadu Buhari. The President appears surprised at the depth of outrage against...
  - Buhari And The Two Blind Men
    
    Something curiouser than the perennial fuel shortage emerged last week. President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year message was the clearest indication yet that the three most senior managers of the oil...
  - Lifestyle Changes: A Personal Odyssey
    
    I first did it at 50. Before then I had not done a comprehensive medical check up. Older friends above fifty would often tell me to have a complete check up at least once every year after...
- Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe
  - Many Weddings…Few Marriages – Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe
    
    You have got to enjoy Nigerian weddings, if you like plenty drama, that is. There are usually surplus of that, often, from both sides of the couple. We’ve heard stories of how such...
  - This Table We Are Not Shaking – Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe
    
    When Winnie Madikizela Mandela passed on recently the world rose to honour the passing of a great woman. Uncommon courage was celebrated by friends and foes alike. A life characterized by...
  - What’s A Woman’s True Worth?
    
    She was young when they got married. He was a teacher but she had never seen the four walls of a school. However, she craved so much to get formal education. He promised he would ensure she got one...
  - Lest We Trivialise Rape
    
    About two weeks ago, one of Nigerian’s most dedicated anti-rape activists, Itoro Eze-Anaba, made history when she became the first Nigerian to receive the Commonwealth Point of Light Award from...
  - Why We Need Our ‘Bomber’ First Ladies
    
    As far as controversial first ladies go, Nigeria has always had its own fair share of the dish. Not that controversy in a president’s spouse is such a damning phenomenon on its own. If it were, the...
  - Lessons Keto Taught Me
    
    So, some months ago I jumped onto the hottest bandwagon in town - the Ketogenic lifestyle. Don’t blame me. I had become desperate enough to try a method my common sense had...
  - A Word For Our DNA Enthusiasts
    
    By Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe For a long time in this part of the world, some of the most torturous moments for the grieving widow are the days leading up to the funeral and few days...
  - No Words For Rape…
    
    Make no mistake about it. Nigeria is the rape capital of the world. Oh, you thought it was South Africa, followed closely by India? Well, I thought so, too. South Africa is said to have 132.4...
  - Nigerian Civil Servants Can Play Too Much
    
    When former Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, told the Senate and Nigerians during a ministerial screening that he never signed a cheque while governing the state, the country erupted in pure...
  - For Jupiter, Recession Is Indeed ‘Just A Word’
    
    For Jupiter, Recession Is Indeed ‘Just A Word’ Why am I even writing about Jupiter? Well, probably because there is this heavy guilt I feel for starving him the greater part of last...
  - Bring Back Our Humanity By Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe
    
    Since I heard about the death of a former Abuja NUJ chairman, Mr. Chuks Ehirim, and the condition in which he died, I have been angry. Angry at myself and the rest of us. I didn’t know Ehirim...
- Tolu Ogunlesi
  - Tales of Nigerian ‘Economy’ – the International Edition
    
    This piece is inspired by the sad story of British Airways cabin executive Joanne Wickenden, who recorded a video that went viral. In it she lamented the ways of Nigerian Travelers (more like the...
  - 7 INNOVATIVE APPS THAT’D BE A HIT AMONG NIGERIANS
    
    An App that allows Nigerian women to check the marital status of Nigerian men. This will be an instant hit. With this app, all ladies at the receiving end of ‘Toasting’ will be able to enter a...
  - Nigeria in Eight ‘Re’s
    
    Every now and then, a buzzword emerges to dominate the atmosphere in Nigeria: the news headlines, opinion pages, TV and radio talk shows, beer parlours, newspaper stands, and so on. With the advent...
BACK OF THE BOOK
- 30 Days Around The World
  - 30 Days Around The World
    
    The Comrades Marathon 2018 When: June 10, 2018 Where: Pietermaritzburg City Hall Chief Albert Luthuli Street , Pietermaritzburg, South Africa The Comrades Marathon is...
  - 30 Days Around The World
    
    The International Cheese and Wine Fair When: April 2018 Where: Coulommiers, France The International Cheese and Wine Fair has taken place every year in late March in...
  - 30 Days Around The World – March 2018
    
    Mummies of the World - Exhibition When: March 1 - June 30, 2018 Where: Prague Holesovice Exhibition Centre, Vystaviste, 170 00 Prague 7. This exhibition has assembled the largest...
  - 30 Days around the world – February 2018
    
    Rio Carnival (Brazil) When: 9 – 14 February 2018 Where: Rio De Janeiro – Brazil The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a festival held before Lent every year and considered the biggest...
  - 30 Days Around The World December
    
    2017 CALABAR CARNIVAL: MIGRATION When: December 24-31, 2017 Where: Calabar, Nigeria Africa has always known Migration, it has also been the home of many cultures for many centuries....
  - 30 Days Around The World
    
    Pushkar Camel Fair When: November 2-11, 2017 Where: Pushkar, India Come for the camels, stay for the country fair atmosphere – but India-style, with snake charmers, fortune tellers,...
  - 30 Days Around The World September 2017
    
    Fête de la Gastronomie 2017 When: September 22-24 2017 Where: Across France France’s annual food fest offers a packed schedule of culinary events, from cooking classes to one-off...
  - 30 Days Around The World August 2017
    
    China International Hair Fair Where: World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai, China When: August 18-20, 2017 China International Hair Fair is a three-day event and...
  - 30 days Around The World July 2017
    
    SUPERMART.NG FOOD PLATING COMPETITION When: July 5-31, 2017 Where: Landmark Centre, Lagos, Nigeria Are you a creative foodie? Well, from the 5th to the 31st of July, you can...
  - 30 days Around The World June 2017
    
    Sundance Film Festival: London When: June 1-4, 2017 Where: London The Sundance Film Festival: London is an offshoot of Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival in Utah. It's back for a long...
  - 30 Days Around The World January 2017
    
    ZAK Salaam India Expo 2017 January 5-8, 2017 Where: Singapore Saluting the spirit of INDIA, ZAK Exhibitions (Singapore) Pte Ltdis organizing “Source from India” Expo called ZAK Salaam...
  - 30 Days Around The World December 2016
    
    Carnival Calabar Festival Where: Cross River State, Nigeria When: December 1 - 31, 2016 Carnival Calabar Festival in Nigeria, also tagged ” Africa’s Biggest Street Party”, was...
  - 30 Days Around The World in September 2016
    
    International Day of Charity When: September 5, 2016 Where: Worldwide The International Day of Charity (IDC) was established to sensitise and mobilise people, NGOs, and stakeholders to...
  - 30 days Around The World in July
    
    International Champions Cup2016 When: July 22 –August 13, 2016 Where: Australia, China, United States, Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, England A whooping 17 teams from two confederations –...
  - 30 days Around The World in May
    
    Sub-Saharan Africa Islamic Finance Convention 2016 When: May 10-12, 2016 Where: Kampala, Uganda It is the launch of an exciting new initiative - filled with new insights and...
  - 30 days Around The World in April
    
    Data Centre World Conference & Expo When: April 12-13, 2016 Where: London, UK Data Centre World Conference & Expo is the ideal marketplace for companies which are involved in...
- Healthy Living
  - LET’S TALK DIABETES
    
    Everyone knows diabetes, and we all know the stereotypes – if you’ve got diabetes, you must have eaten too much sugar, or those who suffer from diabetes have to inject themselves with insulin...
  - THE ART OF BOUNCING BACK
    
    As a people and a country, we have endured a myriad of issues over the years and somehow we always seem to bounce back (and this is open to opposing views), but at least as a country, we are still...
  - Strokes – Preventable, Treatable And Survivable
    
    Stroke happens in the brain not the heart. The term “Brain Attack” is the most descriptive and realistic description of a stroke, and should warrant the same degree of...
  - RECHARGE YOUR BATTERY: OVERCOMING INSOMNIA
    
    Energy is your most precious resource — it takes a lot of energy to get up from that comfy couch to exercise, to plan and prepare meals week after week, and to make new choices every day instead of...
  - GET FIT! PHYSICAL FITNESS AND YOUR HEALTH
    
    Thriv with Dr. Ramat Lawal-Unuigbe Often exercise comes to mind when physical fitness is mentioned. Do you know that exercise is a form of physical activity, but physical activity does not...
  - The dreaded ‘C’ word…CANCER
    
    Every February 4, individuals around the world recognize World Cancer Day. Through conversations about awareness, prevention and treatment, the global population unites to raise the profile of...
  - Healthy Goals
    
    The start of the New Yearis often a time of reflection and great optimism; reflection on the past year and what we hoped to achieve, and optimism for the new possibilities the year holds....
  - Heart To Heart About Your Health: Blood Pressure
    
    Hypertension is synonymous with a busy lifestyle. Modern lifestyle factors associated with affluence, physical inactivity, salt-rich diets with processed and fatty foods, and alcohol and tobacco use...
  - Minerals For Health
    
    Like vitamins, minerals are important for the body. All minerals are important; however, they are classified as either macro minerals or trace minerals (micro minerals. Minerals are necessary...
  - THE BASICS OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS FOR HEALTH (II)
    
    … Continued from last edition Water-soluble vitamins These vitamins need to dissolve in water before the body can absorb them, and they cannot be stored in the body such as vitamins C and the...
  - THE BASICS OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS FOR HEALTH
    
    All of the body functions, including the healing of wounds, immune system function and oxygen movement round the body, are made possible by vitamins and minerals. Vitamins and minerals are referred...
  - Heart Health – Part II
    
    … Continued from last edition Cholesterol and the Heart Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found among the lipids in the bloodstream and in all the body’s cells. It is important to the...
  - Heart Health – Elizabeth Joseph-Williams
    
    The heart pumps about 5.7 litres of blood throughout the body and beats about 60 to 80 times per minute in an adult. The heart is responsible for taking deoxygenated blood through the veins to the...
  - Pregnancy Health – Elizabeth Joseph-Williams
    
    Getting a healthy diet is an important part of living healthy at any time, but if you're pregnant or planning a pregnancy a healthy diet is especially vital. Healthy eating and getting the right...
- Nky’s Kitchen
  - My Breakfast or Yours?
    
    What do you have for the most important meal of the day? Yam and stew? Akara and pap? Bread and stew? Cereal? Leftovers from the night before? Variations of the same basic ingredients: yam,...
  - Trendy Cooking
    
    It is funny how things turn out. When I was asked to write an article on new cooking techniques, I had just come back from a Food Smoking Course. Well, when I started the research for this article, I...
  - Cabbage Eba, Anyone?
    
    “Cabbage what?” I hear you ask. “What about cabbage moi-moi? Cauliflower jollof rice?” You are probably thinking I have gone a bit crazy. Not quite! These are just few of pretty...
  - The Nigerian Cook’s Arsenal
    
    Recently, a foodie friend (The Hunter Gatherer, as I call him) and I were having a chat about what makes a good Nigerian Cook … this got me thinking. Various thoughts went through my mind: which...
  - Kill The Hypocrisy About Religious Studies In Schools
    
    At a time when you would think there are enough small fires in the country, the religious army has started yet another small fire in schools. For most of the time this week the Nigerian...
  - Thinking about Cooking Oils in Nigeria
    
    I love wandering round markets, particularly food markets - it does not matter which country I find myself in, I almost always find time to visit a street market. I love the informality of the...
  - Cooking and Eating For a Healthier Lifestyle
    
    People often ask me how we can make our food healthier. Frankly, I do not think our foods are inherently unhealthy. Rather it is the way in which we sometimes cook and eat them that cause problems to...
- Jopa’s Daughter
  - On Being Single And Free – Olubunmi Ajai Layode
    
    A few days ago, I got a message in my Facebook inbox from a lady who needed advice. She is single and lives in the Diaspora. She is not in any relationship now. However, she is thinking of buying...
  - Why You Shouldn’t Give Up Your Dreams – Olubunmi Ajai-Layode
    
    I love India. It is on my bucket list to visit there before I shuffle off this mortal coil. I almost went a few years ago. But my husband stood in the way. It caused a big strain in our...
  - On ‘Packaging’ For Marriage By Olubunmi Ajai Layode
    
    I will address us ladies because in my experience, men don’t usually package. They present themselves as they are. We women are the ones who always feel we have to fit into society's expectations...
  - On My Feminist Grandpa
    
    By Bunmi Ajai Layode (Jopa’s Daughter) My Paternal grandfather, Papa Idunmota, was a feminist but I did not know this, then. And I don't think he knew he was a feminist either. He...
  - On Self-respect And Side Chics
    
    I saw a post on Facebook today that really annoyed me. A lady made a poster and put the telephone number and picture of another lady that was supposedly the husband's side chic. She called the lady...
  - On Happy Lone Parenting Vs. Unhappy Step Parenting
    
    I used to be a lone parent when I fled domestic violence. Before I met my husband, I was very wary of the men that courted me. When men court or try to court lone parents, they know that the dearest...
  - Does Your Dad Not Beat Your Mum?
    
    Jopa’s Daughter with Olubunmi Ajai Layode My younger friend had her introduction a few weeks ago and is getting married in a couple of months. I am so very happy for her because she could have...
- Munched
  - Seen in the Social Media
    
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  - Seen in the Social Media
    
    Since the social media bug bit Nigerians, including those in the Diaspora, several years ago, nothing has remained the same. No one has been able to find any cure and rather than the fever...
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