Arts & Books

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...

Fabulous Disintegration Of America

The book on my table is The Igor Plan For The Disintegration Of The United States by Emeka Nnolim. The 362-page novel was published in...

“Igbo Rising” Soars From The Stable Of Gerald Eze

The debut album, “Igbo Rising”, by the phenomenal Gerald Eze, aka Ogbuoja-Eze, is a comprehensive delight to behold and cherish. The compelling 12-tracker released...

Literary Pacesetters From The Home Front

When I once received a letter from Professor Chinua Achebe inviting me to the United States of America for a conference on Nigerian and...

UNN Final-Year Class Revisits Ola Rotimi’s Classics

By Emmanuel Nwibo On November 25 and 26, 2025, the final year students of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, will perform Ola...

‘Beauty for Ashes’ Rocks the Stage At UNN 54th Convocation Ceremony

A new experience in theatre is on stage at the esteemed University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). The Senate Ceremonials Committee of UNN is presenting...

Workable Ways to World Peace

(A review of Toward Effective World Security by Uchenna Nwankwo; CentristBooks – the imprint of Centrist Productions Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 187pp) It has to...

Midnight in Shangisha Movie Hits Cinemas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBE-j41OEJI Midnight in Shangisha, a drama-comedy movie featuring top names like Sola Sobowale, Ireti Doyle, Tina Mba, Baaj Adebule, Lanre Adediwura, Antar Laniyan, and others...

Homecoming Fiesta For Things Fall Apart

The book is a standout phenomenon as one of the most influential novels in world literature. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart ranks as one of...

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Gov. Obaseki versus Edo Journalists: Matters Arising

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Sanwo-Olu and the pursuit of a social market economy – (1)

My discussion about the performance of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu...

President Obama’s 2nd-Day Anniversary

Americans can be exasperating. They just don’t know how to do things. Americans have a whole lot to learn from Nigerians. Their inability to do things the proper way cost me a lot of money on January 23, 2009...

Is Lamido Sanusi Part of the Alliance to Transform Nigeria?

It has always been easy to use our limitations as an excuse for doing nothing productive with our lives as far as Nigeria is concerned...

Nigerians are no Longer Suffering and Smiling

I cried on the inside, reading about the level...

The Niger Delta Today

It is no secret that the only thing that holds Nigeria together is the spoils from oil and gas. The story of Nigeria is the story of greed, excesses and corruption made possible by oil. Without oil, there would be no modern Nigeria...

The Illusions and Delusions of Nigeria’s Political Dynasties

Sadly, the set of Nigerian politician children who think of themselves as political dynasties and indispensable to the Nigerian political scene...

My Niger-Delta: A Marshall or Master plan?

There is almost nothing anybody can do now about the imbalance that all the years of oil exploration and exploitation has exacted on the ecosystem of the Niger Delta and on her peoples. The only surviving paw-paw tree behind our house in the village just withered and died, just like that...

The Lakurawa Insurgency: A Growing Threat to Security in Northwest Nigeria

Abstract Nigeria’s security crisis has reached a critical juncture with...

Curbing The NAICOM Cartel And Its Cut-Throat Motor Insurance

As last year drew to a close, the 58...