The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It was not a pretty sight seeing malnourished children with …
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Nigerian leaders must be taken to task for making the country look quite small through their clannishness. The powers-that-be of Nigeria take great pleasure in describing the country as the …
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The news broke like tropical thunderclap: Zik of Africa is dead! The announced death of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first President & C-in-C, was like the falling of an elephant. …
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A new experience in theatre is on stage at the esteemed University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). The Senate Ceremonials Committee of UNN is presenting the Department of Theatre and Film …
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When a story is stranger than the strangest fiction, it lasts from one lifetime to the end of time. There was this musician whose life and death shook up Nigeria …
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In my charged life as a ragged-trousered philanthropist one of the phenomenal potentates I’ve known happens to be Nduka Obaigbena. Back in 1986, the guru who brought me into journalism, …
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(A review of Toward Effective World Security by Uchenna Nwankwo; CentristBooks – the imprint of Centrist Productions Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 187pp) It has to be admitted from the beginning …
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He exudes a presence that is larger than life anywhere he appears. Ambassador Chief Kem Ajieh is 65, and it calls for all-round celebration of a philanthropist who lives his …
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It was an uncommon event that brought together elite personages on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at Hilton Leisure Resort & Hotel in Awka, Anambra State. The influential Anambra Times online …
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The iconic publisher of Vanguard newspapers, Sam Amuka-Pemu, is 90! He remains as ever a self-effacing Nigerian patriot of uncommon class and carriage. Call him “Sad Sam” or “Uncle Sam” …
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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 the rare books that had …
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Fellow countrymen and women, let’s take a trip to a party. Biko, I don’t mean a party like the alphabet soup you have in Nigeria known as APC or PDP …
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Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong’o into the pantheon of ancestors. It was on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 the news broke that the revolutionary Kenyan novelist, playwright, …
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The well-written thriller is the mainstay of popular literature. It’s such an enlightening discovery for me reading the debut novel In The Name Of Murder by Derek Somto Nwokoye published …
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Jazz is music but in some spheres jazz is juju. Jazz music with its African roots has the power of magic bordering on the occult that can turn normal human …
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Oasis In The Desert Of Time – Critical Perspectives on the Nature of GOD for Cosmic-Consciousness & Spiritual Growth by Godson Onochie Amechi; Ezu Books Ltd, Enugu, Nri, Abuja, Connecticut; …