Man proposes, God Disposes
It was a sunny day, a year ago when a colleague referred his son to me. The boy had obtained admission and scholarship into a prestigious flying schoo
Saturday Column
Saturday Column
Azman Air, Aviation Fuel and the woes of a Nigerian Traveller
For the past thirty-six days, I have not had any reason to be angry, raise my voice or contemplate strangling anyone in my mind. My mood has been most
Is it really Stockholm Syndrome?
One morning, on the 23rd of August, some 47 years ago, an escaped convict in Stockholm, the capital and largest city of Sweden, entered a busy bank ca
The Danger of a Single Story
Years ago, at the height of the Boko Haram crisis in Abuja, a relative of mine parked his car by a corner shop and went in to buy a sachet of ‘pure wa
Hajj Diaries (IV): Hajj or Medical Tourism?
Dear Readers, this will be the last of the Hajj Series Insha Allah. It is my hope that you may have learned a thing or two about this sacred journey.