Confusion has taken over the entire land of Nigeria. To use the popular parlance, “everything is now jaga-jaga!” As I write now, the music of Eedris Abdulkareem booms: “Nigeria jaga-jaga! …
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Reflections on Nigerian Movie Industry: Salute to Pioneering Creativity and Perseverance by Femi Akintunde-Johnson; Basic Skills Academy (ISBN 978-1-716-08239-9); 2021; 158pp Nigeria is celebrated across the globe as being …
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While going through a WhatsApp group recently I beheld the icon: Emeritus Professor Uka Ezenwe, the venerated dean of legions of economists who has over the years taught great captains …
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The acute hatred in my heart now-now, as we do say in Nigeria, is about the characters called columnists. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired over …
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It is a lot easier to live a celibate life than to stay faithful to one wife. Right from the Garden of Eden, it’s written that immediately a man tastes …
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A do-gooder told his landlord that any tenant who sends the police after the owner of the house “is capable of killing you.” This selfsame Tenant Do-Good not only called …
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The 250ml liquid antiseptic on my table as I write now commands attention. The product is called “YESS Antiseptic” and bears the tagline “always protecting”. It is meant “for external …
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Not many Nigerians know that the country won a world cup in football back in 1977. Most Nigerians would regale you with stories of 1985 when Nigeria won the maiden …
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The iroko stands tall and mighty, stretching its boughs across the firmament. The song of the heart is in arresting dialogue with the iroko, the one tree that makes the …
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Let’s play politics – party politics, that is. No less a worthy than Aristotle stated that man is by nature a political animal, and who am I not to obey …
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Ojukwu: The ‘Rebel’ I Served by Uche Ezechukwu; ThoniMartins Ltd, Abuja, Benin, Lagos; 2012 Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu almost always dominated all discourse in the course of his journey on earth. In …
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They no longer make women like my very own Auntie Ngozi. No, I have to be more precise: they no longer make men and women like Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, …
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Things have fallen apart completely in Nigeria. Nothing has made many Nigerians lose faith in Nigeria more than the impunity reigning in Nigeria since General Muhammadu Buhari ascended to power …
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I am sorry for any Nigerian who cannot speak the language of the cow. In truth, I am daily mastering cow language, and you do need to come and see …
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Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka; Griots Lounge Publishing Winnipeg, MB, Canada; 2020; 96pp Devotion to poetry is a life sentence. Echezonachukwu Nduka is a lifer. In the prison of poetry, true …
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When the Nigeria-Biafra war ended in January 1970, there was gloom in Igboland. Even as the then Head of State General Yakubu Gowon made the famous announcement of “No Victor, …