Interviews & Profiles

The value a society places on the philosophy of service to the nation no doubt influences an individual’s decision to work for his or her fatherland. The first prime instinct …

The soft, gentlemanly features of Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme belie the heart of steel inside the late first ever Vice-President of Nigeria. Back in 1998, Nigeria’s Head of State, General …

They no longer make politicians like Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, otherwise known as KO, the man of timber and calibre. The bombastic man from Arondizuogu in present-day Imo State had more …

It was a day to cherish as the esteemed actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu, was honoured with a Doctorate Degree in Arts and Culture by Institut Superieur De Communication Et De Gestion …

Let me start this rather short Tribute by stating that the story of my contact with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah and my eventual employment at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria …

He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the literary world with his amazing precocity. He was admitted to my alma-mater Great Ife (University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University) …

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 …

By Nkanu Egbe Benin City was the playground of a little girl, Isoken, who was the daughter of a medical doctor and a market trader. Let us rephrase that. Benin …

The man bears a heavy-duty name, and it is not funny at all trying to pronounce or write the name (or names?) down. Let me contradict myself by saying that …

The news here is not that consummate actor Bob-Manuel Udokwu has just been appointed the Special Adviser on Entertainment, Leisure and Tourism by Anambra State Governor Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo. …

The sonorous songstress Onyeka Onwenu is 70, and the world is celebrating her, but my duty here is to add the human angle to the story of the goddess. Onyeka …

Stephen Okechukwu Keshi was without question among Nigeria’s greatest ever football role models. He was Captain Fantastic of the Super Eagles and capped it all up with his success-laden mantle …

By Maxim Uzoatu & Collins Azu Professor Afam Icha-Ituma, Vice-Chancellor of Coal City University, Enugu, Nigeria, turned 47 years on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. He is the second Vice-Chancellor of …

Bar Peter Uwadia is an erudite scholar and lawyer. When you are in his office, you easily know that he is a very busy man, what with the pile of …

Fate was at work to ensure that my last meeting with Alhaji Abdulaziz Chivuzor Ude happened after he had been to an art exhibition. The devoted art patron was walking …

Nothing has shaken up Nigeria in recent times than the astounding burial of Obi Cubana’s mother in Oba town in Anambra State. The social media space was entirely taken over …