Interviews & Profiles

Prof Bart Nnaji As A Sports Superstar

Prof Bart Nnaji is globally renowned for his revolutionary innovations in robotics, e-Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He has served as Nigeria’s Power Minister as...

The Homecoming Ties Of Prof Nduka Otiono

The don makes it a point of duty to always come home to Nigeria from his duty post as Director, Institute of African Studies,...

Prof Bart Nnaji @ 70: A Reason To Believe

It takes more than nerdy audacity to undertake the tackling of a subject as complex as Professor Bart Nnaji as he turns 70 on...

May Is The Month Of Bob Marley

May is the month of memory - of the death of the legendary master, Bob Marley.   Robert Nesta Marley, universally known and adored as Bob...

Akanni Iromini at 70!

Born April 26, 1956, Akanni Aqib Iromini is 70. Forget the cake and cheers. This milestone calls for something deeper: a look at 70...

Adewole: The physician as diplomat

Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole is a Renaissance man who has, in today’s parlance, multitasked all his life. He is not just an accomplished figure;...

Recalling A Poetic Tribute To Gani

The celebration of legendary legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, has understandably been more political than poetical. It is in the realms of politics and law...

Agunsoye: Tribute to the deity at 69

Last weekend, the Elegboro of Ijebu-Jesa, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Engr.) Oba Moses Oluwafemi Agunsoye, clocked 69 years on this earth. Born on January 24,...

Oládèjo Afoláyan: A National Treasure At 71

On December 15, 2025, Professor Michael Oládèjo Afoláyan celebrated his seventy-first year on the lanet Earth. No doubt about it, Afoláyan has led a life...

Adewole: New Diocesan, New Diocese

On Thursday, September 18, 2025, at the Cathedral Church of Emmanuel in Okesa, Ado Ekiti, the Standing Committee Meeting of the Anglican Communion elected...

DAME Celebrates Owei Lakemfa

The Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) can hardly ever be matched as a benchmark for quality in the Nigerian media. The 34th edition of...

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Nigerian Men and their Foreign Wives

Culturally, Nigerian men are overbearing, controlling, and paternalistic.  They relate to their fathers and mothers differently. They believe it is “a man’s world” and so they have the tendency to relegate women to subservient roles. I am stunned by the transformation Nigerian men, married to non-Nigerian women, have gone through in the United States...

Is Genevieve Nnaji Nigeria’s First Movie Superstar?

What is this Nnaji mystique that has her audience colliding heads so joyfully, crawling, craving some time in her sun? Star quality is what it is. The amount of talent dripping from her little finger is more than many of our other female leading ladies have combined...

Why Do African Men Go Home to Marry?

The African male is perplexing. He can be enigmatic. He can be everything and sometimes, nothing. He can be sweet and loving and caring and benevolent and at the same time oppressive. His life is full of contradictions. In so many ways, he is a wounded animal as a result of his historical past...

Mobil’s Oily Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights

The eight-year long battle between Commandclem Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Limited, over ownership of patent and intellectual rights to a chemical invention for offshore drilling seems in sight…

Lost in a Sea of Hair Weaves

One can understand some black women wearing wigs for the same reasons that some white women do; because they are losing or have lost their hair. One can even make allowances for wigs being worn for the occasional change of look. But how to explain young women with full heads of hair who will never be seen dead with their natural hair?