By Steve Osuji

He's indeed a happy-go-lucky man. Life for him is a stream of ribald jokes. He seems to wear life like an oversized babanriga which he’s adept at wearing these days.

Ogbanje is a term used in Igbo culture to describe children who die and return to be born and die again.

By Paulyn Owhievbie Ugbodaga

In the rich landscape of Nigerian culture, interspersed with terraces of tradition and heritage, lies a complex labyrinth of norms and beliefs that shape the lived experiences of its people.

By Bolanle Bolawole

Segun Olatunji, the General Editor of an online publication whose abduction and detention by men in uniform, acting Gestapo-style, raised a lot of dust, has resigned his appointment. Olatunji resigned because he disagrees with the decision of his employers - the owners/management of First Media Network Limited, publishers of FirstNews newspaper - to retract the story that had led to his travail as well as offer public apology to Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, now Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

One major, under-stated advantage of living in Nigeria, that our challenges becloud, is the endless opportunities to keep learning. Never mind that you could discover you had learnt nothing on the rigmarole of life called Nigeria. The conclusion of that matter is usually that Nigeria happened to the person.

By Azu Ishiekwene

There are probably more books on how to sell everything than there is sand by the seashore. I have read a few myself and might say that when it comes to selling, even though what you have read might help, nothing teaches like what you learn by doing it.

By Steve Osuji

Parable of the Dung Beetle: This little creature, the beetle, takes delight in faeces. The dung beetle gathers poo voraciously, rolling it into a ball that can get as big as 50 times its size. It is said that the beetle doesn’t stop picking up crumbs of faeces. It stops only when it can’t roll the ball of shit anymore.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Anger with which Minister of Works David Umahi addresses the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project unleashes pungent smells that are entirely unpleasant. They have cast a pall of mystery on the project that is clothed with an urgency that is unbecomingly breath-taking.

By Bolanle Bolawole

No one in a position of authority deliberately sets out to give himself a bad image. What usually happens is that aides, family members, friends, influencers, lobbyists, and those in the corridors of power deliberately or inadvertently crop up injuries or bad image for their principals. Some do this to curry favour as they pretend to be more Catholic than the pope, crying louder than the bereaved. Others do it deliberately to feather their own nests.

By Hassan Gimba

“One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to convince them steadily with propaganda that they are still free.” N. A. Scott, American author.

By Dotun Oladipo

About two weeks ago, I joined Babajide Kolade-Otitoju on a Television Continental programme: “Journalists Hangout.” The programme provides perspectives to trending and topical issues in Nigeria and beyond, especially as they affect Nigerians. One of the topics of the day was the seeming face-off between a former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

By Deji Ayoola

Beyond a seeming cosmetic spruce-up, the new Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, FMACCE, actually benefits from a fundamental vision tweak and structural reconceptualization from which the impactful achievements it has recorded within a year flow.