State of Mind

For Nigeria’s military, times have never been this challenging. Plagued on the one hand by the fiendish activities of some twisted minds that have taken over a vast cut of the country’s northeast region, it is on the other assailed first by the charge of corruption against its leadership by ...

In a piece titled “Democracy, Deferred”, award winning author, Chimamanda Adichie described the recent postponement of the general elections as an act of desperation from an incumbent terrified of losing. Below is the article published on The Atlantic… Last week, Victor, a carpenter, came to my Lagos home to fix ...

Some people have accused me of not liking politicians, so let me set the record straight. I don’t! They have done more harm to our nation than the military (their first cousins). At no period in our nationhood has the opportunity for reversing the dehumanising nature of a politically corrupt ...

Muna Obiekwe was a damn good actor. Quite good. I never really met him nor knew him personally but I admired his acting skills onscreen whenever I watched the movies he featured in. He was an actor who had a panache beyond comparison in many of his roles. I always ...

Hafsat Abiola is a human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), and daughter of late business man/politician, MKO Abiola. Her letter below Dear President, As young global leaders we would like to express our deep concern about the recent situations in Nigeria. ...

Read this interesting article sent in Adewale Adeoye, CNN African Journalist of the Year Award Winner ..He detailed his experience during a recent fact finding visit to the Synagogue Church of All Nations.. “Amazed. Amazed. Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua amazed me. I was part of a delegation that visited him ...

Etcetera writes open letter to Christ Embassy head pastor Chris Oyakhilome. Greetings in the name of the lord. I hope this letter finds you in the best of spirit and health. I write to you, in the same form that Paul wrote to the Ephesians expressing his advice and counsel ...

When you are conducting job interviews your goal, if you are rational, is to find the person who can best do the job as specified by your work organization. Presidential elections are hiring interviews, this time the interview is conducted by the entire nation. The entire nation want to find ...

Every person needs a philosophy, a frame of reference to which he refers everything that happens to him and in the world. A good frame of reference is not necessarily true but referring the events of this world to it enables one to make sense of the things that happen ...

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Here are the losers of 2014! (In no particular order).. 1. May D May D seem to be the architect of his own misfortune. Since releasing his debut album, the self acclaimed Sure Boy has been a very lazy artiste, choosing not to put out records every now and then. ...

2014 is indeed a wonderful year for some artists, we saw the rising and falling of many, Topping the List is non other than. 1. ORITSE FEMI aka MUSICAL TaLIBAN The Double Wahala crooner who moved recently from Ajegunle to his Lekki home, He is also a proud owner of Range Rover evoque 2014 ...

Report by Declan Eytan for Forbes magazine Illusionists flown in from Spain, flowers imported from France, or an R&B superstar flown in from the United States. No request seems to be out of line to Nigeria’s rich when it comes to the most beautiful day of their life. And don’t ...

On this last Sunday of 2014, Naija Vibe brings you the 10 most controversial pastors of the year. Ayo Oritsejafor The Founder and Senior Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church tops our list of most controversial Nigerian pastors of 2014 for his involvement in the private jet caught smuggling ...

According to Morakinyo Olugbiji (Journalist/PR), below are the worst Nigerian hit songs of 2014.. Someone once told me that the type of music a society listens to is a reflection of that society; therefore the chaotic music that has in recent time rented the Nigerian airwaves is a pure reflection ...

My dear entertainers who just lost out in your quest for public office, can you please gbe enu e soun so that we can concentrate on the election at hand? Despite your claims, we all know the reasons why you sought public office in the first place. So many Nigerians ...

We can’t count how many smiles and hugs are shared around the world everyday. How many warm pats on the back or how many handshakes are shared. Likewise you can’t count how many hearts are gutted by frustration, fattened with pain and swollen with depression. Nobody chooses this to befall ...

Following my previous post, (READ HERE) I got a plethora of comments against the views expressed therein, but none as shallow as that from the Editor of a small campus based gossip-magazine. ‘Do your celebrity thing, but don’t write about politics because you don’t know politics’, he wrote on BBM ...

As a Student of an educational institution, the student is given the ‘holy grail’ that contain the rules and regulations that guide such an institution and the consequent punishment for going against such laws which are by default subject to change. In this context, as long as the student is ...

Suddenly on Saturday morning, a new player came into the race for the APC ticket for Governor of Lagos state; thus the fight was made official and the date is 8th October, at the gubernatorial primaries for APC governor for Lagos state. The first round of this fight was held ...