The powers-that-be of Boko Haram have never had it so good. It’s as though they are in power. Who has not heard that 601 so-called repentant, sorry, I meant to …
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Nigerians are fond of turning very serious matters, even ones threatening the very life of their country, into objects of jokes and laughter. And so, as President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption …
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Professor Pius Adebola Adesanmi belongs to the class of people larger than life and death. When news filtered out that he was one of the 159 casualties of the Sunday, …
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Just like the All Progressive Congress (APC) which was driven by very poor judgment to ask him to pilot its affairs, there is no doubt that having Mr. Adams Oshiomhole …
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He did not deliver on his promise to write “The Book” before his death. The fact that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu did not publish a book on the Nigeria-Biafra War leaves …
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Nigeria is a sacrament to mediocrity, stumbling towards Armageddon; a metaphor of dysfunction, hovering dangerously over the precipice. Over and above being a testament to the messy afterlife of colonialism, …
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The 21 books came to me in two gift paper-bags from the scholar Udenta O. Udenta. The priceless present came along with a 34-page “Guide To The 21 Book Project” …
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ENIGMATA (TO WOLE SOYINKA @ 70) You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yetAligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed in straight draughtsYet stooped to housebreak Euripides for us: …
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Let me start with a confession. I borrowed the title of this piece from the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The novel and …
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Controversial oil billionaire Prince Arthur Eze is making so much news of late. He has received some heavy knocks in some quarters for insisting that only God can make an …