AKS intl. Worship Centre. Credit: AKSG Aniefiok Effiong, a father of four, wakes up every 4:30am to prepare to leave the house in order to make ends meet. His children believe he should bring home money for sustenance. Yet, they are unaware that as their father treks for over six kilometres with various working tools …
Whenever I speak to old friends and school alumni who have aligned themselves with certain politicians and power structures that I personally find unconscionable, they always laugh and give me variants of the same answer – “Bros, wetin man go do?” I seem to begin a lot of my columns with anecdotes from the 1990s, …
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Queen Elizabeth inspect the soldiers of the Nigeria Regiment during her first visit Queen Elizabeth II (96 years) had been to Nigeria only two times after she was crowned England's monarch in 1953 The first time the then-young queen visited Nigeria was in 1956 three years after she ascended the throne After this, Queen Elizabeth …
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Gathered outside the door of the Cheshire venue in the sweltering almost Lagosian heat, I adjust my dress, which is a Nigerian Barbiecore remix of Lily James’s 2022 Oscars gown. There are drummers punctuating the songs sung in my grandmother’s tongue by two women who stand at the entrance of the doorway. They ask us to fill …
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