Many Nigerians are stuck with zero experience of what it means to live in a decently run society. Laden with a long history of mostly inept, insensitive and less-than patriotic …
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He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the literary world with his amazing precocity. He was admitted to my alma-mater Great Ife (University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University) …
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There’s no understating the importance of primary schools in our lives. It matters less whether one ‘attended’ it at home, sans classmates. The privileged few in this species never suffered …
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Bandits and Beggars by Kunle Adebajo; Lantern Books – Literamed Publications Ltd, Lagos; 2008; 111pp It is an everlasting truism that when brothers and sisters fight to the death, strangers …
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A Lifetime of Friendships: And a Career in Television and Nollywood by Muritala Sule; MS Global Productions Limited; 2019; 242 A Lifetime of Friendships is the enthralling memoir of Muritala Sule, …
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I don´t envy Nigeria´s next president. Whoever steps into Aso Rock on the 29th of May, 2023, will be inheriting an Omni-dimensional catastrophe. He will be inheriting a boiling cauldron …
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(Excerpt from the Prologue of the novel The Missing Link by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, published by Abibiman Publishing, UK) I am the missing link between ape and man. I …
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As it is with politicians across the globe, and especially Nigeria whose business is politics, political campaign promises made by politicians to Nigerians as elections draw near has been the …
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Solutions to problems, whatever the ramification, are never far to fetch. In so far as those labouring to solve them are as well minded as to get to the root …
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Bureaucracy is a systemic form of administration. Since there is a universally acceptable standard benchmark, a deviation from the ideal type reveals the unintended fault lines and the extent to …