Interviews & Profiles

They no longer make creative masters like the personable wonder simply called El Anatsui. El Anatsui came from Ghana to Nigeria and then conquered the world. It is no mean…

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu is dead! May God repose his soul! Since nature abhors a vacuum, his Deputy, Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa has now been sworn-in as the substantive…

I do not know how to start this Tribute. Still, I have to do it; and it’s to Temitope Adeniran Ademakinwa who died on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. Ademakinwa died…

Anything can happen on the spur of the moment to shake up the earth in this age of the social media and its so-called influencers. I was just minding my…

The overarching consensus amongst his compatriots is that Emeka Ozumba is unassuming but quietly effective. Cool, calm, calculated and compassionate, the personable go-getter clocks 60 years of age on December…

The man fondly called Zik of Africa deserves his day. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first president, deserves his birthday, November 16, to be slated as a national…

Igwe (Sir) Raphael N. Offor, KSM, JP, AMB. P breaks bold ground as he celebrates Ofala on 31st December. 2023. He was crowned Ide II of Omogho in November 2005,…

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, famously known as Ken Saro-Wiwa, would have been 82 today, October 10. My lionized friend packed too many lifetimes into one life. His hanging by the General…

A man represents different things to different people. It’s like a mirror in the sun, reflecting different parts of humanity, which depends on who is looking at it, and what…

By Bryan Clayton Chitwood 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…

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…

Abba Kyari, CFR, OON! Remember him? Kyari was the Chief of Staff (CoS) to former President Muhammadu Buhari. Born on September 23, 1952, he served in that prestigious position between…

The news that came from Johannesburg, South Africa on July 19 was heartrending: Kole Omotoso is dead! The lionized writer, Kole Omotoso, was my teacher at the then University of…

Before I’m accused of name-dropping, let me start by stressing that though it’s implied, such an intention is as far away from it as Port Harcourt is from Kaura-Namoda. After…

It is in my constitution to celebrate Onyeka Nwelue, no matter whatever anybody reads elsewhere. The much-ballyhooed news out of Oxford or Cambridge on Onyeka Nwelue should be better understood…

Dr. Stanley Nkwachikwelumamaya Macebuh was a rare breed in the freshest sense of the term, a charge of fine electricity who all on his own changed the face of journalism…