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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 …

Nigeria is celebrated in the world because Nollywood ranks as the third largest moviemaking enterprise after America’s Hollywood and India’s Bollywood. It’s indeed remarkable that one of the elite movies …

It Is A Goal! No! – The Necessity of Biafra by Hanum Mary Chioke; ISBN: 978-978-977-670-2; 2018; 259pp   Man’s existence on earth can be understood like a football match …

The two generals are seen as the best of friends across the political spectrum of the Nigerian nation. In many informed circles, General Matthew Okikiola Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo and General …

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 …

The presidency of Nigeria is so highly coveted that even expired players want to grab it “by fire, by force”, as the Pentecostals would say. The presidential wannabes are all …

Unwittingly, Nigeria keeps owning up to all its many caricatures. Since its birth in 1914, and independence in 1960, the ‘geographic expression’ has had to cope with a lot of …

There is talk here and there of bringing back History with a capital “H” in the Nigerian school curriculum. It is cool by me to do a short history course …

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) …

Bandits and Beggars by Kunle Adebajo; Lantern Books – Literamed Publications Ltd, Lagos; 2008; 111pp It is an everlasting truism that when brothers and sisters fight to the death, strangers …

A Lifetime of Friendships: And a Career in Television and Nollywood by Muritala Sule; MS Global Productions Limited; 2019; 242 A Lifetime of Friendships is the enthralling memoir of Muritala Sule, …

(Excerpt from the Prologue of the novel The Missing Link by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, published by Abibiman Publishing, UK)   I am the missing link between ape and man. I …

Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has never hidden his initiative to turn Anambra State into one megacity. The broadband installation is the grand way to go. Just last year, on March …

The most challenging article ever written by me was published in Time magazine. It was one of the many friends of mine who had been asking me to write my …

I had an extravagance of laughter when a dear friend of mine showed me a so-called column written by Sam Omatseye. To give him his due, Sam Omatseye has been …

A Destiny Fulfilled by Ben Egbuna; Diamond Publications Ltd, Lagos; 2021; 387pp It reads stranger than fiction that Ben Egbuna visited a prophet of what he called one of the …