I took a walk. Just now, I left my mug of Irish Cream, Baileys, and walked outside to look at the sky. I have to tell you, the Lagos sky isn’t what it used to be. When I was young, younger… I am still young. I have to remind myself of this daily because I fear that if I start believing I am old, I will...

Do you know that I wanted to be a star?It happened in the summer of 2018. I had just left CNBC Africa. I had just joined the BBC. I went to England, London for a week. Life was good, but yet, there was an emptiness, a vacuum I found terrifying. There are very few things worse than nothing.I expected...

There's a manic pixie dream girl I'm in love with. Her name is Kah-lo. She's the sort of person that makes you believe in magic and fairies and unicorns. Her hair is green, her skin is brown, and her eyes twinkle with mischief. She is one of the few people on this planet that drunk me and sober me...

There’s something about being in your twenties. It’s the only time in your life when you can be a young upwardly mobile professional and a smooth talking delinquent with little or no irony, perfectly preserved in some version of post adolescent beauty by the happy combination of fantasy, alcohol...

By August 2016, many Nigerians had learned a new word: recession. Two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics. It was a word that had not shown itself since 1994. Time had long eroded its meaning. For some, a recession means very little. It’s...