(Excerpt from the Prologue of the novel The Missing Link by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, published by Abibiman Publishing, UK) I am the missing link between ape and man. I …
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Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has never hidden his initiative to turn Anambra State into one megacity. The broadband installation is the grand way to go. Just last year, on March …
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The most challenging article ever written by me was published in Time magazine. It was one of the many friends of mine who had been asking me to write my …
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I had an extravagance of laughter when a dear friend of mine showed me a so-called column written by Sam Omatseye. To give him his due, Sam Omatseye has been …
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A Destiny Fulfilled by Ben Egbuna; Diamond Publications Ltd, Lagos; 2021; 387pp It reads stranger than fiction that Ben Egbuna visited a prophet of what he called one of the …
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Big Brother Naija is back in town, and you do not need any prophet to predict that raunchy sex will soon be coming live and direct on live TV. It’s …
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Some stories are impossible to wipe from the mind, especially if one had a ringside seat in the unfolding of the macabre act. An old friend ran into me recently …
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The white man can never get tired of discovering something. Ever since Mungo Park discovered the River Niger, every white man flies into Nigeria with the aim of making a …
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Today is the great man’s 88th birthday. Given all the battles he fought over the years, hardly any prophet could have prophesied that Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka would live to …
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The Mandela Garden and Suites in Asaba can arrest all tourists with exquisite panache and sublime aesthetics. The celebrated citizen of the world, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been there to …
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The 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) left much to be desired as some centres could NOT sit for the examination while …
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Nigeria is still very much a conservative country in which marriage is seen as the completion of a man or a woman. You may earn all the degrees in the …
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There is obsession and there is Obi-session. The diff, as the advert says, is clear. The 2078-page Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language bought for me by the …
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Royal Miral College and Epic Nursery/Primary School are the winners of the Nelson Mandela Gardens and Lodges Spelling Bee competition 2022. The two schools defeated well over 20 competitors from …
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50 Years Of Solo Performing Art In Nigerian Theatre: 1966-2016 edited by Greg Mbajiorgu and Amanze Akpuda; Kraft Books Limited; Ibadan, Nigeria; 2018; 614pp The commonplace belief is that drama …
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Political Jumpology is the modern day art form of jumping from one political party to the other. More acerbic writers would rather call the matter by a different name: political …