Interviews & Profiles

“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 –  …