Miscellaneous

The white man can never get tired of discovering something. Ever since Mungo Park discovered the River Niger, every white man flies into Nigeria with the aim of making a…

The Mandela Garden and Suites in Asaba can arrest all tourists with exquisite panache and sublime aesthetics. The celebrated citizen of the world, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been there to…

Royal Miral College and Epic Nursery/Primary School are the winners of the Nelson Mandela Gardens and Lodges Spelling Bee competition 2022. The two schools defeated well over 20 competitors from…

There is so much talk over the political airwaves of a possible return of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to the seat of power in Aso Rock. Nigerians are indeed living…

“Stage One – The Mood Jocose. Stage Two – The Mood Morose. Stage Three – The Mood Bellicose. Stage Four – The Mood Lachrymose. Stage Five – The Mood Comatose.”…

By Maxim Uzoatu & Collins Azu Professor Afam Icha-Ituma, Vice-Chancellor of Coal City University, Enugu, Nigeria, turned 47 years on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. He is the second Vice-Chancellor of…

It’s the first night of our honeymoon but I hardly thought of my wife and me as I spent the hours thinking of another man, Chike, kissing Victoria and soulfully…

“Shock your wife!” I am only reiterating the law handed down to me by Borojah, a rambunctious neighbour of mine who claims to be a poet though I’ve never come…

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…

There is a sign that’ll confront an African hunter setting off for the night’s job in a distant forest and he’ll call off the hunt instanta. Like his left toe…

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…

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…

By His Royal Majesty Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin ——– You may also have heard about the recent activities of a group of individuals who incorporated a…

In an ‘Open letter to America’s Secretary of State, John Kerry, American Corner Come to Edo-Delta’, in March 2015, I had said that ‘materials in the American corner cover a…

There are a good few stories about human beings that have philosophical and aesthetical appeal. Like every aspect of the universe, the earth and human beings have experienced tremendous evolutionary…

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…