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People who have known me over time can attest to the fact that I am quite good at doing public service. It is, thanks to this advertisement for myself, that …

Football is earthquake larger than the Richter scale. I should know because I played the game. In certain locales more people know me as an expired football player than even …

A seemingly innocuous spark in an otherwise isolated part of a nation can change the course of history. Nigerian history as we have it today owes its shape to the …

Writers can kill. The creative writer plays God by creating people on paper and destroying lives at will with an ordinary pencil or pen or a computer. The power of …

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 …

I am allergic to dictators, even if they somehow manage to dress up in democratic robes. Nigerians cannot ever forget in a hurry how some time ago all the five …

Going to work could mean your death. It was indeed a bad time. The June 12, 1993 election won by Bashorun MKO Abiola had just been annulled by the military …

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 …

Nigerians take so much pride in making pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem in the name of religion. The Muslims and Christians obviously can never have enough of acting holy through …

For The Good Of The Nation – Essays And Perspectives By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; ALFA Books, Ikoyi, Lagos; 2021; 509pp   Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former Governor of the Central Bank …

Drama And Theatre In Nigeria: A Critical Source Book Edited By Yemi Ogunbiyi; Second Edition; Tanus Books Limited, Lagos; 2014; First Published 1981; 736pp   The handsome young lecturer ambled …

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 …

The party is heavy, but the beer is even heavier. In the present tense of liquor, it’s a rollicking night of highs and higher highs in which, under the inspiration …

The Yoruba: A New History by Akinwumi Ogundiran; Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA; 2020; 532pp   It strikes me as not very funny that there was a time when …

There are more male prostitutes in the crooked field of partisan politics than there are female harlots in the brothels across Nigeria. The prostitute politicians come armed with the bewildering …

How can some concerned Nigerians be talking of having an absentee president when all that is needed is a standby president? It is only in Nigeria that people are wise …