I have always been fascinated with the idea of religious practices, customs and traditions that have been used to give people a guideline or template for how best to live their lives in the face of mystery and challenge.

Valentine’s day is an economic gold mine for chocolatiers, greeting card companies, florists, and likely every merchant of red heart shaped purposeless trinket you can imagine.

Before the month of February even began, the commercial industry was already gearing up for one of the most popular days celebrated around the world. Valentine’s Day. The publicly recognized day for declarations of undying love, surprise marriage proposals, over the top attempts to win affections or in some relationships dramatic romantic displays to secure…

I wonder how our New Year resolutions and agendas could reflect openness to both these notions of time. Chronos time is real, time measured by the earth’s rotation around the sun. But it is also predictable.

Last week, the renown British based Nigerian artist, Yinka Shonibare was in Lagos, the city of his youth, to unveil his latest installation ...

Earlier this week I was all set to write this column on witnessing the historical event of the election of the first female president of the United States of America.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been doing some research for a few articles in progress in Northern Nigeria. So far, my work has led me to meet and talk with women from various states across the region.

Maybe it’s the social media feeds I follow but lately I have been reading more stories about Borno in international media outlets.

I’m sitting in the receiving room of the PenCom building admiring the black and white charcoal sketches of past and present leaders in the Nigerian Pension Industry.

I didn’t know the Shehu of Borno had traditional shoes! Beautiful cream mules with intricate circular patterns embroidered in shiny silver threads. The toes of the shoe curling up slightly, while a tongue of fabric decorated in what resembles yellow pompom....

It’s 11pm on a Friday night and I’m sitting in a club in Abuja listening to the music vibrating off the walls. Still fairly early, the crowd is thin and the bodies are not yet grinding against one another involuntarily.

In honor of National Book Lovers day, I thought I’d pay homage to the power of fiction and its positive attributes for expanding our life experiences.