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...

Creative Writing and Reading Culture in Nigeria

The price to pay to be a novelist and visionary as Achebe states is a healthy reading culture among the youth...

When the Exiled 'Reggae Rebel' Hit Home

Like narcotics and other drugs, millions are hooked on music. That's why you have teenagers in the West whose behavorial abnormalities are traceable to heavy metal music with its violent lyrics...

On Lagbaja!'s Love Video, ‘Never Far Away’

Lagbaja! a soldier of culture, understands the authentic meaning of refreshing the traditional aesthetics, and handles it proficiently through modernisation and fusion with the sublime in urban and foreign elements...

Re: BBA: Debasing Self For A Fee

Shame and condemnation to Ofunneka, to her parents, to Nigerian federal and state governments, including Nigerian legislators, all Nigerian mothers who kept silent...

Big Brother Africa: Debasing Self For A Fee

I am not a fan of the Big Brother nonsense, and all such shows, like beauty pageants, where people are paid and cheered on to throw their honour and dignity as human beings to the dogs, to satisfy the depraved taste of irredeemable voyeurs...

Students On The Entertainment Run

The entertainment industry in Nigeria over the last 10 years show an upsurge of interest. The interest is basically of the influx of students into the sector in the areas as music, television production, cinematography and the likes. What accounts for this growing interest?

BBA and a $100,000 Richer Richard!

For me Richard, Ofunneka and Tatiana are heroes. The BBA, beside the economic drive of the proprietors, had sought to change the way we behave hypocritically as a people...

Big Brother Africa 2 Scandal

Reality Shows are all the rage right now….I find them boring and totally pointless…

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Nigeria’s Sick Democracy and Her Rule of Law Deficiency!

If a trader has to bribe his way through clearing goods and is unsure of overhead costs from one shipment to another, then how on earth is he going to be able to price his goods in a uniform manner?

Between Usman and Soludo

It is expedient and desirable for the good of the country to avoid unnecessary diverse views about the country’s economic policies at this time...

The Thief Called Peter Odili

To think that Odili at some point nursed the ambition of becoming Nigeria's President and allegedly had the backing of the incumbent President Obasanjo leaves a sour taste in one's mouth...

On Igbo Titles (Nke Onye Chiri Ya Zaa!)

While some may say that tradition is gradually disappearing in some areas or aspects of Igbo culture, it is still thriving in several others especially in the taking and bearing of titles...

APC Should Face The Real Issues

Recently, the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC),...

And She Died In My Arms

My impromptu trip to Nigeria was an experience that will continue to linger in my mind. The news of my mom in comatose made me very unsettled and agitated...

Bidding my Father-in-Law Adieu

Losing a confidant, friend or someone your life has,...

He’s Just Not That Into You…

Sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending; we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell the ones who want us from the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave...

Nigeria's Weekly Woes

Less than a month ago we were talking about the Niger Delta crisis, the militants, and the federal government amnesty. Then the Boko Haram crisis erupted. As the Boko Haram troubles were about to die down, the Nigerian banking crisis arose...

US To Export Oil: Nigeria loses revenue and market by 2014

Even with the myriad sources of oil supply to America, it has not abandoned oil drilling and exploration within continental America. It is a goal and principal task among oil explorers in the United States to make a quantifiable difference in supply of energy for internal consumption...