Vaswani brothers and tax evasion

By Casmir Igbokwe
 Published: Sunday, 26 Apr 2009
 There is this popular traditional musician generally perceived in Igboland to have mystical powers. He used to showcase this power during the annual Ikeji Festival in his native Arondizuogu in Imo State. Part of the myth around Perry Como Okoye in his heyday was his alleged encounter with tax [...]

Seeking asylum in heaven

By Casmir Igbokwe
Published: Sunday, 19 Apr 2009
LAST Sunday, somebody close to me pleaded that I take her to a prayer camp. The camp, which is somewhere at the Idimu area of Lagos, belongs to the Foursquare Gospel Church. And it costs N300 to secure a place there. I had advised the young woman who sought [...]

The mischief of PDP governors

By CASMIR IGBOKWE
Published: Sunday, 12 Apr 2009
 AS a small boy in the early ’70s, I played a lot of hide-and-seek with my peers. In the night, we would hide under a lorry usually parked in our neighbourhood. Our main prank then was to startle passers-by. The more frightened a passer-by, the happier we were.
Our strategy [...]

Odili/Amaechi’s reconciliatory kiss and Yar’Adua’s regret

By Casmir Igbokwe
Published: Sunday, 5 Apr 2009
IN October 2008, an English woman gave her partner, Mark Coghill, what turned out to be a painful kiss. The man was actually celebrating his 45th birthday at Newcastle. Midway into the celebration, his woman, Tracy Davies (40), remembered that she wanted a baby but pregnancy eluded her. She [...]