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...

We may meet them at a house party, a gathering of mutual friends; sometimes in a bar where the music is too loud for speaking. Sometimes from twitter, occasionally at a funeral – where the grief is almost tangible – and every now and then at a wedding. If we look at the largest possible picture,...

The only thing certain about living is dying. As none of us know precisely when that will be we cannot really afford to waste a single breath. This is why we pursue personal happiness in so far as it hurts no one else with almost single minded selfishness. Being Nigerian is a strange affair. The successful...