Arts & Books

An Only Child Named Friday

Homage: Return To Familiar Places - The Memoir by Chidi Amuta; Wilson & Weizmann Associates Limited, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 492pp It can indeed be...

The Fortress of Delusion: Satire, Power and Self-Deception

By Enam Obiosio Uzor Maxim Uzoatu’s ‘White Men Can’t Write’ is not merely a short story. It is a political fable disguised as absurdist comedy,...

June 17 Is Achebe Day Because Of ‘Things Fall Apart’

On Tuesday, June 17, 1958, Things Fall Apart was published in England. The book has over the years become a standout phenomenon as one of...

Fighting With Writing

Viral Poems by Sunny Ayewanu; Bookdoctors Ventures Publishing, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 109pp Some people fight with guns, some others fight with the bomb, but the...

Dissecting The Heart Of The Land

Footnotes For A Nativeland by Emman Usman Shehu; Topaz Books, Abuja, Nigeria; 2026; 120pp He is in the top ranks of potent voices that have...

EU Ambassador Mignot Visits Awka Museum

The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr  Gautier Mignot paid an august to the...

Recalling The Wild, Wild West Days

It is very obvious that our politicians have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing from the sordid past of the country. Given the controversies being promoted...

The Soludo Template

The Audacity To Transform: A First Row Testimony On The Ongoing Development In Anambra By Gov. Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s Administration by Anselm C. Onuorah,...

Parresia Books: Reason To Believe In Nigeria’s Literary Future

The Lagos scene is where books happen - as per the written word having multiform events being organized for seasons on end. I’ve been many...

A Poetic Evening With James Eze

The legendary poet W.H. Auden famously wrote that “poetry makes nothing happen”, but the great man would have written differently if he had been...

The Great African Survival

Riding The Storm: The Untold Story of Africa’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Toni Kan; Narrative Landscape Press, Lagos, Nigeria; 2024; 246pp The unforeseen...

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Lebanon: Destruction Beyond Comprehension

There are those who believe that the actions of a state in pursuit of its national security objectives can not be considered terrorism. Well, that is false!

Congratulations, Mr. Obasanjo

Where there is a need to grant Kudos to Mr. Obasanjo; where it is appropriate to accept that he has grown in stature greater than any Nigerian living or dead, let us grant it to him...

Aganga and the challenge of attracting foreign investment

The global outlook for Oil, Nigeria’s main export is not very promising. The uncertainties of the global economy will continue to push investors away from longer term engagements...

The Genius that is Olusegun Obasanjo

Can anyone think of Nigeria in the last thirty-five years or so without Obasanjo? He is the custodian of political-goodies, the man with both raw and refined power and unbridled influence...

America Means Well For Nigeria; Oh Really?

America has clearly set out to undermine Nigeria, to create instability and disintegration! Despite the adamant insistence by some Nigerians that the current American federal government means well for Nigeria and Nigerians, it is becoming crystal clear that the quick succession of negative events perpetrated and orchestrated at the behest of America are geared toward producing negative consequences...

Between CBN and its foreign exchange interventions

Since the appointment of Sanusi as the CBN governor in 2009, one thing that every body agrees Sanusi has achieved is bringing some kind of stability into the banking industry. But the other two areas of his job, inflation control and determination of realistic exchange rate, the CBN governor can be said to have achieved minimal success...

Confessions Of A De-Robed Monk

It takes more than the piety of religion to conquer and overcome the unwholesome desires of the heart. Love is all about desiring the best for someone. It's better to allow love to sleep on in limbo than rouse and stoke it...Monks also face the same challenges that confront mortal men...

The African Hypocrites (2)

The problem of Africa is not a failure of the social, political and economic institutions. It is of the decadence in the souls of Africans. The African worshippers of foreign gods are soulless moronic opportunists…

Nigeria's 2013 Fiscal Austerity Budget (2)

The question everyone seems to be asking endlessly is: how could Brazil have risen so fast it is not only beating Britain as the world's sixth largest economy, but also about beating France as the world's fifth largest economy before the end of 2012?

Newsweek-Adeboye: Pentecostals

Like witchcraft, Pentecostal beliefs are very appealing because they promise people immediate power and a million dollars. Also, those who are not yet born of the Spirit of the true Jesus and those who are not growing strong in true Christianity, want a god they can see...