A sleeping giant is a bad sight to behold. Nigeria happens to be widely acknowledged as the Giant of Africa. China used to be the apt example of a...
It all started at the local secondary school in Ndiorumbe when the literature teacher, Holy Nwankpi, asked his students: “Who wrote Things Fall Apart...
It was an amazing sight to behold, a mission accomplished. Three gleaming security vehicles, seven rugged motorcycles, three walkie-talkies, 20...
It was the race of a lifetime. The title of Africa’s fastest girl was at stake. The lush tartan track in Dakar, Senegal was bearing witness to history...
Nothing can be sweeter than playing the beautiful game called football. It sweetens my soul this moment to remember that I once played in the same...
Plastics, Plastics Everywhere (Poetics of Environmentalism and the Paradox of Our Polymer Age) by Greg Mbajiorgu; Bookcraft, Ibadan, Nigeria; 2020;...
I should have been a comedian. Poetry is poverty. Comedy is cash. I have been around long enough to know the gnashing of teeth that goes with bearing...
Like goldfish that has no hiding place, Sally Mbanefo has recently been endowed with a new portfolio as the Commissioner of Mineral Resources...
Any idea, no matter how small or banal, can lead to great wealth. Ordinarily, the word “ass” or “buttock” or “bottom” would be scoffed at. But one...
The news all over town is that there is raunchy sex going on in the Big Brother Naija house. It’s as though the housemates dearly need to have Nackson...
Even in death General Sani Abacha keeps donating money to Nigeria. No ancestor has ever been this good to the Giant of Africa. What a benevolent...
The powers-that-be of Boko Haram have never had it so good. It’s as though they are in power. Who has not heard that 601 so-called repentant, sorry, I...
Professor Pius Adebola Adesanmi belongs to the class of people larger than life and death. When news filtered out that he was one of the 159...
He did not deliver on his promise to write “The Book” before his death. The fact that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu did not publish a book on the...