Promise Adiele

Genuine, unpretentious patriotism is deep, very deep. It arises from an unflinching, sometimes obdurate conviction that one’s country would one day recover from anaemic, degenerate conditions. With such persuasions, one…

Last Saturday, I attended the reunion party of the Department of English UNILAG class of 1998. It was a wonderful occasion that evoked nostalgia and the revival of receding memories.…

I met Olusegun Obasanjo for the first time in his Abeokuta home in 2017. I had gone to interview him with Prof. Hope Eghagha as part of the research materials…

Nigeria’s undisputed political sensation and Labour Party’s presidential aspirant in the 2023 elections Mr. Peter Obi continues to bestride the country’s political firmament like the Shakespearean Colossus. His unrelenting consistency…

Wole Soyinka’s The Trial of Brother Jero and Ngugi wa Thiongo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi dramatize trial in different, compelling strata through creative literary imagination. While the lead character…

Nigeria’s former military head of state Mr Yakubu Gowon recently marked his 90th birthday anniversary. Expectedly, many Nigerians felicitated him on the landmark occasion. Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate…

Barrister Jubril Salami is my good friend. Our friendship started at Henry Carr Hall, University of Lagos. I cannot immediately remember how our friendship started but we became friends and…

There is no hiding place for Nigerians as they grapple with different difficult circumstances of everyday subsistence. Frustration and despair intrude into Nigeria’s daily survival procedure unhindered. It seems alien…

For reasons ranging from my late parents’ Christian tutelage to personal convictions about the inviolable sanctity of the Godhead, I gravitate towards biblical narratives these days as a soothing response…

 As a popular expression, “enough is enough” conveys multiple meanings that converge under the umbrella of expired patience, prolonged anticlimactic delay, and inevitable exasperation. Ordinarily, when people reiterate “enough is…

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff” … submitted Mark Anthony during his funeral oration for Julius Caesar. Anthony contends that ambitious people should be cruel, desperate, self-indulgent, and lacking…

Words are powerful whether in written or spoken contexts. They decide and have decided the fate of many people, societies, and groups in human history. Mark Anthony in Shakespeare’s Julius…

Many people vehemently argue with verifiable indices that Nigeria, in addition to being the poverty capital of the world, is also the world’s spiritual headquarters. The level of spirituality in…

By Promise Adiele In a way, one can argue conveniently that coincidence is a divinely orchestrated occurrence where humanity is completely helpless and unaware of the inevitable fissures of existence.…

By Promise Adiele I nostalgically remember a popular refrain in my secondary school days; “Lost but found”. Back then, an item of less value never went missing because nobody needed…

By Promise Adiele It is needless to repeat or chronicle Nigeria’s multi-layered, hydra-headed woes ranging from a moribund economy, evident social dislocations, and unrecognisable political identities. Of course, there is…