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First question: Could you tell me a little about where you grew up and how you came to poetry? I grew up at Onitsha, the famous town of Onitsha Market…

Nigeria’s Sports Minister John Enoh is poised to take Para-Powerlifting to a new height in Nigerian sports. At a recent meeting of the Presidents of Sports Federations in Abuja, the…

It’s a terrible Nigerian fate that every so-called democratic election is delivered like a ticking time-bomb primed to explode with fatal menace. The unfathomable aspect of the matter is that…

In a season that university professors were being rubbished as pathetic election riggers, it came as a pleasant surprise to me that there’s one university don who could put himself…

Back in time Nigeria owned the world record in coup-plotting by the khaki boys of the military. Now coups happen in other lands like Niger, Gabon, Burkina Faso etc., and…

When people watch a football match, a key player does not feature, questions must be asked. Dr. Kayode Fayemi, two-term Governor of Ekiti State, is a cerebral figure in the…

Courage and Character: The Definitive History of Osun State – Volume 1 of the Osun Trilogy 1951-2018; Published by The Erudio Alphabet Company, Lagos NG101014; 2023; 450pp Not many Nigerians…

There’s this recent sad news of a pastor in Nnewi, Anambra State who killed himself after being jilted by a lover. A hot tear for the suicidal man of God!…

The President of the Nigeria Para-Powerlifting Federation, Ichie Chiemeka Charles Ezenwanne, has led Nigeria to yet another triumph at the just concluded 2023 World Para-Powerlifting Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from August 22 to…

It is no fake news that General Sani Abacha’s bagman has returned to Nigerian cabinet to take charge of the budget. It is all in line with the fact that…

I borrowed this title from the British thriller writer, Jeffery Archer, but I am in no mood to discuss that disgraced man’s book. Nigeria is in dire straits, and I…

The celebrated season of the Nigeria Prize for Literature always ends on the note of winner-takes-all. It is incumbent on me to plead now that the longlisted and shortlisted authors…

Zik’s Avenue is arguably the most hurly-burly road in Awka, the capital city of Anambra State, but tucked inside Number 261 is seminal serenity. Here is the home of Awka…

I am too ancient to understand the bytes and cookies of this new age of fast weddings and faster divorces. You can log in to Facebook to see a lavish…

I am here to eat my words, that is, to swallow my own vomit. Back in time, I had written that it’s time for the Nigerian government to throw in…

Let the whole wide world join me in universal celebration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has just repeated the immortal feat of discovering ice. The first time ice was…