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The bag named Ghana-Must-Go is at the very root of all the evils afflicting our dear country Nigeria. All the funds voted for the cure of diseases such as malaria, …

All that any Igbo charlatan needs to hoodwink many a Nigerian leader is to claim that he has the beans to bring the Igbo people to the centre after the …

Nigeria is the burial ground of big dreams. Dele Olojede brought great honour to Nigeria by winning the coveted Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2005. Thereafter Olojede dreamed big …

Religion provides an anchor to the lives of believers. The belief in a Supreme Being lends meaning to man’s existence on earth, and the promise of the afterlife makes the …

Unhappy is the country whose leader is not properly educated. Going to school is a matter of urgent national importance unless Nigerians want to submit to the thesis of Boko …

Fear and superstition have taken over Nigeria, and church pastors are having a ball preaching occult miracles of emptiness. I have a book here with me entitled God, Faith and …

The hot button in Nigeria today is to crow of secession. It does not matter if the jumped-up secessionist leader can in truth tell the boundaries of his dream nation. …

Nothing can be more jarring than discovering at this moment when one is congratulating oneself on having written on everything only to instantly discover that one has written absolutely nothing …

The music was more arresting than a lover’s summons. Call it the music of the spirits that intervolves the ancient and the modern. It was revolutionary music being dished out …

He called himself the Ultimate Lagos Big Boy. Some called him Owo Lagba, that is, Money Power, while some others preferred to call him Lagos Yuppie. Niyi was the quintessential …

Big Brother Naija, BBNaija for short, is one television show that no Nigerian can ever escape from. Whether you like to watch it or not, it is always there in …

There’s this book by Peter Enahoro entitled You Gotta Laugh to Cry. The so-called democratic elections in Nigeria almost always end up making all Nigerians laugh to cry. Let’s start …

Awka, the capital of Anambra State, takes pride of place as a pivotal home of art and culture, but art exhibitions are few and far between currently. It was therefore …

Somebody has called my attention to a terrible plagiarism of my work by one Samuel Ifeanyi Onwuachuke who described himself as a “self meida writer”. The fellow lifted my article …

Let’s just begin by stating that Fela the Spirit transformed into a higher spirit on this day 24 years ago. There can be nobody else like Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. The icon …

The Journey: Pursuit of Purpose Storified by Stanley Ohanugo; BrandZilla Technologies Limited, Nigeria; 2021; 188pp The best way a man can arrest the world is through the story he tells. …