Toni Kan Onwordi
Articles by this Author
Pastor Bimbo Odukoya: A Tribute
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 12/22/2005
- Nigeria Matters
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I met Pastor Bimbo like many others through her programme, Single and Married. As a newly married couple, my wife and I used to have our breakfast on Sundays with her voice in the background and with time we would catch ourselves mimicking the way she said: “Talk to me!”
Naija Notes: The Akwanga Debacle
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 12/16/2003
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
Nigeria has become such a country that glorifies graft and celebrates ill-gotten wealth that “public service” has become an oxymoron, a blatant paradox when viewed against the warped tapestry of our national life...
Naija Notes: What's Wrong With Obj?
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 12/4/2003
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
OBJ is laughing like a hyena. Twice in less than six months, the Chicken Farmer has gathered the tribes from across the world in an orgy of extravagance...
Censorship and Big Brother Africa
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 09/16/2003
- Nigeria Matters
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In the past one hundred and six days, Africans all over the continent, those who could afford cable tv subscriptions or a television set for those who caught the programme courtesy local television stations, were turned to voyeurs...
Naija Notes: Winning the battle, losing the war
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 07/26/2003
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
One of the characters in the Ngige abduction drama has warned the PDP that he will tell the whole world how the elections were rigged in the East if the PDP decides to punish him...
Naija Notes: Obj, Na So You Be?
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 07/10/2003
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
Every day you queue up to buy petrol at N34 a litre or pay twice the amount you used to pay for your bus ride, you will be
contributing to the rehabilitation fund of Obasanjo's party...
Naija Notes: The Loser Formerly Known As Buhari
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 06/13/2003
- Nigeria Matters
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Oga, dem say make I ask you one question: you dey crase?
Naija Notes: What Do You Read?
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 05/20/2003
- Nigeria Matters
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Driving to work this morning, I was ruminating over an e-invitation I
received yesterday requesting me to submit the title of the African book
that has had the most impact on my life...
Naija Notes: Questions Without Answers
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 05/6/2003
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
How come there are so many pregnant mad women running around Lagos? Who is knocking them up and where the hell do they ‘do’it?
Naija Notes: “Curiouser and Curiouser”
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published 04/30/2003
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
Ghali Naaba’s headache is figuring out what his siblings will now call him. At the height of his powers he had ordered them to
call him Mr. Speaker. Alhaji, my humble suggestion: how about Mr. Ex-Speaker?
