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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)…

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…

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,…

(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…

Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has never hidden his initiative to turn Anambra State into one megacity. The broadband installation is the grand way to go. Just last year, on March…

The most challenging article ever written by me was published in Time magazine. It was one of the many friends of mine who had been asking me to write my…

I had an extravagance of laughter when a dear friend of mine showed me a so-called column written by Sam Omatseye. To give him his due, Sam Omatseye has been…

A Destiny Fulfilled by Ben Egbuna; Diamond Publications Ltd, Lagos; 2021; 387pp It reads stranger than fiction that Ben Egbuna visited a prophet of what he called one of the…

Big Brother Naija is back in town, and you do not need any prophet to predict that raunchy sex will soon be coming live and direct on live TV. It’s…

Some stories are impossible to wipe from the mind, especially if one had a ringside seat in the unfolding of the macabre act. An old friend ran into me recently…

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…

Today is the great man’s 88th birthday. Given all the battles he fought over the years, hardly any prophet could have prophesied that Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka would live to…

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…

The 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) left much to be desired as some centres could NOT sit for the examination while…

Nigeria is still very much a conservative country in which marriage is seen as the completion of a man or a woman. You may earn all the degrees in the…

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…