The Plumb Line
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...
A Falaluan prophecy
Falalu Bello is a top Nigerian economist, with roots in the "far north". He was the first managing director of...
Reader’s Digest’s death difficult to digest
Someone posted the bad news last week on a New Nigerian pensioners platform. Otherwise I would have missed it.The post...
Friend or fiend?
Two incidents happened last week in which the police was both villain and victim. The first involved two students of...
Them be barbers
There is a musical score that runs thus: "Some people/ Them be barbers/ They crape Naija kwaryan mbollo [skin...