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A boon companion has just taken me to Onitsha, the city on the bank of the River Niger in Anambra State, and the only matter on my mind is the…

Even in the darkest of days and nights in Nigeria, there are adorable persons to celebrate in fine fettle.  Kunle Ajibade, the Executive Editor/Director of PMNEWS and TheNEWS Magazine, Mr Kunle Ajibade, belongs to…

It takes uncanny courage and conviction to write a book on the controversial subjects of Christianity and Colonialism. When Eme E. Egwuonwu’s Liberating the African Mind: Who We Were Before…

It’s not for nothing that she is fondly referred to as Ngozi Wahala in many enlightened quarters. Truth is they no longer make women like her anywhere on Planet Earth.…

The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It was not a pretty sight seeing malnourished children with…

Nigeria is in a class of its own. Other countries may talk of “winner takes all”, but in Nigeria the standing maxim is “rigger takes all.” If you don’t agree…

There is a new hard-hitting book on my desk entitled This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce. It has just been published by Verso, in London,…

Nothing divides Nigerians like religion, but I have it on good account that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who prefers Orisha to Christianity and Islam turned out the saving grace of…

Let’s start out by reminding ourselves that a haunted house is almost always a place f horror stories. I know that Charles Dickens wrote a ghost story entitled “A Haunted…

It is well-nigh impossible keeping pace with the man who stressed from the very beginning that he was coming with “disruptive change”. Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, came as a…

The docudrama Fela: The Man and His Music is a fact-driven story of Fela Anikulakpo-Kuti that focuses on the legendary musician’s defiant crusade against injustice in the brutal military era.…

The one-party phenomenon that ruined many African countries in the past is being regurgitated in modern-day Nigeria. It’s so obvious that gruesome tragedy is brewing all over the land that…

The ultimate recommendation of democracy is this: where a party performs badly it gets voted out. In these shores, it is a different ball game. Even if a party unleashes…

What instantly seized my attention was the mention of “Governor’s wife”. The reporter’s instinct in me immediately got into fine fettle. Like the character Al Barney in James Hadley Chase’s…

The Nigerian economy is in dire straits, and many families cannot make ends meet in the drive for survival. Most of the presidents of African countries have just travelled to…

I get more phone calls and text messages than all the mobile telephone networks in Nigeria put together. Yes, I am that large. I am sick and tired of being…