The Plumb Line
Malformed umbilical cord severed
The Supreme Court, July 11, finally cut the umbilical cord that connected state governments with local governments in a sort...
Beware the enemy within
The other day, I watched a video clip running on social media. The voice-over was warning of a plot by...
The beautiful one is born
The Economist has described the outcome of the July 4 parliamentary election in Britain as massive shifting of the political...
A giant cut down to dwarf
If you're tired of being addressed as a giant, how about being treated or mistreated as though you were a...
The drummer boys again [2]
The following is the concluding part of Alkasum Abba's cerebral piece in which he takes us through the 'sins' of...
The drummer boys are out again [1]
Akin, the hero in Cyprian Ekwensi's novella The Drummer Boy is a skillful drummer with a silky voice. People like...
The stumble, the fall, the speech
For President Bola Tinubu, the celebration of the 2024 anniversary of June 12 couldn't have begun on a more awkward...
Hollow men, stuffed men
The late poet T. S. Eliot, writing about the hopelessness of man to rise above banality, said in his poem...
When three elephants fight
There is an old saying, "When two elephants fight, the grass suffers." But when the elephants involved in the fight...
My neighbour’s daughter is one
My neighbour, the right reverend pastor John, has a daughter who has just turned one. In Igbo, she is called...