Interviews & Profiles

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 …

He was so daring early in life that nobody gave him any chance to live up to 87 years on this earth. But here we are: Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka, …

Television can be quite arresting, especially if one is in the studio being served news, politics, the economy and sports in real time. It was in a soft afternoon of …

Okot p’Bitek, the great Ugandan poet, author of Song of Lawino, always held court at the bar in the foyer of Oduduwa Hall, the big theatre of the then University …

It was fun at first sight. The first time I set eyes on Toni Kanayo Onwordi, famously known as Toni Kan, I found fun oozing from his every pore. He …

‘Abiodun, stop crying; the storm is over!’ Those were the exact words of Peter Oluyinka Odumakin to me at Saint James’ Anglican Church, Aramoko-Ekiti in Ekiti State, on November 5, 2009. It was on the occasion of my wedding to the-then …

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 …