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Toni Kan Onwordi

Toni Kan Onwordi

Toni Kan Onwordi holds both a B.A. and M.A. English (Literature) degrees from the Universities of Jos and Lagos. His works have been published widely in the Art pages of prominent Nigerian newspapers and his poems have appeared in the anthology 25 New Nigerian Poets edited by Toyin Adewale. He has also had short stories published in anthologies like We-Men, Little Drops (1) and Diamond and Ashes. An award winning poet, essayist and short story writer, his awards have taken him to Scotland and Switzerland. Toni Kan is currently working on a novel, Secrets of the Untold.

  • Pastor Bimbo Odukoya: A Tribute

    by Toni Kan Onwordi December 22, 2005
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    I met Pastor Bimbo like many others through her programme, Single and Married. As a newly married couple, my wife and I used to have our breakfast on Sundays with …

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  • Naija Notes: The Akwanga Debacle

    by Toni Kan Onwordi December 16, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    Nigeria has become such a country that glorifies graft and celebrates ill-gotten wealth that “public service” has become an oxymoron, a blatant paradox when viewed against the warped tapestry of …

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  • Naija Notes: What's Wrong With Obj?

    by Toni Kan Onwordi December 4, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    OBJ is laughing like a hyena. Twice in less than six months, the Chicken Farmer has gathered the tribes from across the world in an orgy of extravagance…

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  • Censorship and Big Brother Africa

    by Toni Kan Onwordi September 16, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    In the past one hundred and six days, Africans all over the continent, those who could afford cable tv subscriptions or a television set for those who caught the programme …

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  • Naija Notes: Winning the battle, losing the war

    by Toni Kan Onwordi July 26, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    One of the characters in the Ngige abduction drama has warned the PDP that he will tell the whole world how the elections were rigged in the East if the …

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  • Naija Notes: Obj, Na So You Be?

    by Toni Kan Onwordi July 10, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    Every day you queue up to buy petrol at N34 a litre or pay twice the amount you used to pay for your bus ride, you will be contributing to …

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  • Naija Notes: The Loser Formerly Known As Buhari

    by Toni Kan Onwordi June 13, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    Oga, dem say make I ask you one question: you dey crase?

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  • Naija Notes: What Do You Read?

    by Toni Kan Onwordi May 20, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    Driving to work this morning, I was ruminating over an e-invitation I received yesterday requesting me to submit the title of the African book that has had the most impact …

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  • Naija Notes: Questions Without Answers

    by Toni Kan Onwordi May 6, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    How come there are so many pregnant mad women running around Lagos? Who is knocking them up and where the hell do they ‘do’it?

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  • Naija Notes: “Curiouser and Curiouser”

    by Toni Kan Onwordi April 30, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    Ghali Naaba’s headache is figuring out what his siblings will now call him. At the height of his powers he had ordered them to call him Mr. Speaker. Alhaji, my …

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  • Naija Notes: Say A Prayer For Nigeria

    by Toni Kan Onwordi April 23, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    Will Nigeria Burn?

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  • Naija Notes: Paid Mourners And Rented Crowds

    by Toni Kan Onwordi April 9, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    “Bad people” set Buhari up to contest for just one reason: to make OBJ look good…

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  • Naija Notes: Lawyers! Lawyers! Liars!

    by Toni Kan Onwordi April 1, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    Sometimes when we get that which we want, it leaves a terribly sour taste in the mouth…

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  • Naija Notes: Sitting On A Time Bomb

    by Toni Kan Onwordi March 25, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    My mother hasn’t tired of telling me that she will not be in Lagos come April no matter what my dad says…

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  • Naija Notes: Rent-A-Saboteur

    by Toni Kan Onwordi March 13, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    The number 3 has always had a bad resonance in the Nigerian political landscape: 1983, 1993 and now 2003…

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  • Naija Notes: Who Is Obj’s Babalawo?

    by Toni Kan Onwordi March 4, 2003
    by Toni Kan Onwordi

    Less than two months to the Elections, fuel scarcity has returned, NEPA is suffering from warapa again, AD is playing games with their support…

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