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Majek Fashek was a magician, and he could always come up with all makes of mischief. Majek was once rehearing at daytime in Silver Shadow Night Club, Ola Ayinde Street,…

I can never get tired of celebrating Nigerian literature, arguably Nigeria’s greatest gift to the world. The politics of Nigeria is a disaster that makes the whole wide world laugh…

This is the season of high-wire politicking, and some contenders and wannabes are talking tough on rescuing Nigeria from ruin once they are elected as the country’s President. Anybody elected…

There is the popular proverb that goes thus: “A tree cannot make a forest.” I write here to refute that proverb because I witnessed the life of one man who…

Nigeria today stands on wobbly legs, and wants needs to be done to make the country to stand steady and strong is to go back to where the rain started…

The Riddle of the Oil Thief by HRM King Bubaraye Dakolo; Purple Shelves Publishers, Lagos; 2021; 528pp A clear and present danger that can lead to the economic ruination of…

Naija does not need to qualify for Qatar 2022 because our game is better and older than the so-called World Cup. The Naija game from the beginning entailed any number…

The rafters are afire and the roof is aglow. Good sound burns with sweetness as Gerald Eze, the master performer of Oja, the air-blown instrument of the Igbo, releases his…

The Christmas season in Awka, the capital city of Anambra State, is being kicked into focus by a momentous art exhibition tagged “Clean Slate”. The ever-innovative Awka Museum Foundation situated…

Poets from all over the world today do not come any loftier than Nigeria’s Niyi Osundare. In my book, he is the next poet destined to win the Nobel Prize…

Nobody should expect to see me near Qatar in this period of the FIFA World Cup lasting from November 20 to December 18. It’s totally against my constitution to be…

Dear Teacher & Pagan (To Wole Soyinka) Dear teacher and pagan, With prim fronds I thee wed. Is there palmwine in Paradise? The homy spirit unbinds, And the grotto of…

November 16 belongs to one man who conquered the world for Mother Africa. In the words of the great Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiongo, “Achebe bestrides generations and geographies. Every…

Angry bees of the wild are up in arms against the politicians of Nigeria, and the politicos are running helter-skelter for their dear lives. Just the other day, on Saturday,…

It is in my constitution to make very powerful enemies. It’s as though I cannot stop myself from fighting diabolical principalities and powers. There is this friend of mine who…

There was an invasion of Awka, the capital of Anambra State, by a troika of Nigeria’s savviest journalists, and another guru served as a supporting voice from the United States…