Interviews & Profiles

‘Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated’ dictum per the French poet – Alphonse de Lamartine As I still tried to ruminate over the annus horribilis called 2020,…

“If anyone asked me what are my greatest career achievements in life; one is the creation of CNN, and the other is hiring Larry King, ” – CNN Founder, Ted…

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…

“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith…” (2 Timothy 4:7)  When on December 7, 2019, news broke that Reinhard Bonnke, the…

Nigeria is in dire straits, and the government of the day is burying its head in the sand like a woebegone ostrich. It takes tremendous courage to speak truth to…

I cannot believe that I am the jolly good fellow of the birthday song. Not many blokes gave me any chance at all that I could ever strike the mighty…

Losing a confidant, friend or someone your life has, in one way or the other, been intertwined or associated with has a way of taking away a part of you.…

Let’s start from the end: I have died. Yes, this daughter of Professor James Adichie has killed me. Call it a beautiful death and I will wake up from the…

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller Next Friday, September 11, 2020, the mortal remains of my…

Like goldfish that has no hiding place, Sally Mbanefo has recently been endowed with a new portfolio as the Commissioner of Mineral Resources, Tertiary Education, Science and Technology in Anambra…

Any idea, no matter how small or banal, can lead to great wealth. Ordinarily, the word “ass” or “buttock” or “bottom” would be scoffed at. But one inspired man took…

Even the elements are not left out: Lightning! Thunder! They all celebrate Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka, that is, Wole Soyinka for short.             Wole Soyinka threw a party for my class…

The iconic publisher of Vanguard newspapers, Sam Amuka-Pemu, remains as ever a self-effacing Nigerian patriot of uncommon class and carriage. Call him “Sad Sam” or “Uncle Sam”, he is a…

Chief Simoyan, who died on 29 October 2019, was born on 1 February 1934 in Egbe, Kogi State to Mr Angus Aremu and Madam Yeyeolu Simoyan. He grew up on…

Friday, May 15, in this Corona-tainted year of 2020 marks the 65th birthday of the inimitable journalist’s journalist Sonala Olumhense. I doubt that I would ever have become a journalist…

Of the apothegms employed by thinkers in their classification and determination  of true greatness, none seems to have as yet surpassed, in depth of meaning, in logicality of reasoning – …