The one word in Nigerian lexicology that is capable of application in multiple contexts and situations. It is the reason adduced for starting a music concert four hours behind schedule; it is the perfect way to describe the job function of that individual who gets paid for ...
When the lower (or lower middle) class imagine the bank account figures of the rich, it often appears in the mind as a line with endless zeros. This is unrealistic for two reasons. The first is rather inconsequential: who spends their money only to have zeroes after the first digit? The second is probably why most remain the cycle of financial powerlessness – the rich do not stack their m ...
Every year as the fourteenth day of February approaches, there is a sense of excitement in the air, people start feeling jittery, some even empty their bank accounts to purchase items for the ones they claim to love, but is that really what that day is about?
For the benefit of that for those who haven’t already read the tale, legend has it that Valentine was a priest who served ...
The theme of “financial rumination” (for want of a better phrase) is slowly becoming a “sub-genre” in today’s Nigerian Afro-pop sphere. Songs under this “category” tend to involve lyrics that focus on outlining individual economic struggles and the need to push hard to get past the thick line that separates middle class living from squalid existen ...