Massacre. This word has been a subject of much lexical hair splitting in the past four weeks or so, since the Lekki Massacre. Much energy has been dissipated needlessly on wether the event at Lekki was a massacre or not. The classic dictionary meaning of massacre going by the Oxford…

My heart bleeds at the death of my brother (my egbon by a not so slim margin) and valued friend. We first met as young adults at Radio Nigeria in Ibadan, where I was serving my NYSC after being transferred from Plateau state. A year later, we both got employed…