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Otti to Host Birthday Reception to Celebrate Obi of Onitsha, Achebe’s Legacies Friday

The Abia State Governm‌⁠ent will today h‍o‍st the traditional ruler, Igw‌e Nnaeme⁠ka Ac‌hebe‌, the Obi‍ of O‌nitsha‍, in⁠ c⁠elebration⁠‍ of his 85⁠t...

Power Is Temporary, Humanity Must Endure, Says Alege 

*  Launches five books Michael Olugbode in Abuja  Nigeria’s political elite, diplomats, jurists and scholars gathered in Abuja on Tuesday as veteran diplomat, Ambassador Shina Aleg...

Anglican Devotional 15 May 2026 – The Legacy Of Faith

Obi vs Ojukwu

I stumbled on a post that immediately caught my curiosity: “Peter Obi is greater than Ojukwu.” The statement didn’t compare Obi with a minor figure, but with a man who still sits i...

A defier of averages, By б№Јб»ЌlГЎ б»Ќlб»ЌМЃrunyб»ЌmГ­

A defier of averages (not a verse for Mark Nwagwu @89) Just One step before the Ninth Ninth floor defined only by grace Grace, as falls short Short, short of expectations Expectati...

To The Paul Dike Family

Dr. Paul Chika Dike, PhD. OON. The Ogene na Enugwu Ukwu. A Tribute.   The stars have departed, The sky in a monocle Surveys the world under   The stars have departed And I—where am...

Temitope Abiola: The Nigerian Art of Storytelling in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen

Obioma's use of natural elements, particularly the river Omi Ala, does more than provide a setting. It establishes an early symbolic current that runs through the novel. The post T...

GOWON’S MEMOIR: DUTY WITHOUT ATONEMENT

The burden of the memoir is that Gowon remembered selectively, contends PAT ONUKWULI On Tuesday, May 19, 2026, Nigeria’s political, military and ecclesiastical establishment gather...

The Gains of Challenges

What are challenges, and how can they be overcome? These are the central questions explored in The Gains of Challenges, a thought-provoking book written by Chuka Ebene, an estate a...

We Did Not Become Silent | Abraham Ogebe A | Fiction

  5 am, September 20, 1994 It was Founder’s Day at Capital Science Academy, our alma mater. It was also the second day of our first year in junior secondary school. The seniors cal...

A Presidential Visit, Amupitan and Other Nigerian Fables

It was Palm Sunday, March 29, “The Year of Our Lord” 2026. Terrorists dressed in military-style uniforms, and riding motorcycles, arrived in Angwan Rukuba, a district of the pictur...

Foluke Falayi brings ‘Unbending Steel’ to life at UNESCO World Book Day

The novel traces Tomobi, a gritty young boy thrown into the chaos of urban Nigeria. Life knocks him down, but Tomobi won’t snap. Like steel under pressure, he bends — but never bre...

We Are All Àmúpìtàn

Àmúpìtàn – the one whose deeds will be retold in history. If you answer this name, wisdom dictates that you should be conscious of what history holds for you in future. Every human...

Yakubu Gowon and the Ghosts of War

Perhaps it fits into the faithful fixture of fate that Yakubu Gowon, a key gladiator in the bloody Nigerian civil war of 1967-70, is still alive and going strong at 91. That he has...

Fatherhood, aging, and the fragile future of care in Nigeria

There is a quiet tragedy unfolding in Nigeria, and it rarely trends.   It does not explode like fuel prices. It does not march through streets like elections. It does not scream li...

Asiwaju And The Burden Of Leadership

By Mobolaji Sanusi “Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.” — John C. Maxwell William Shakespeare is a glob...

Citizens of Africa’s Giant: Treated Like Ants Everywhere

In the past, Nigeria has played a big brother role in Africa, and it still does, as evident in its recent help to the Benin Republic’s government to regain power from those who ove...

2027 and the Finger That Fingers Nigeria

Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti’s Coffin for Head of State was not merely a song. It was a funeral procession disguised as music, an indictment carried on saxophone, anger, memory, and ancestr...

African writers share global insights on Afropolitanism, Black consciousness at Korea University

Two prominent African writers engaged Korea University students in Seoul in a discussion on Afropolitanism and Black consciousness, offering global perspectives through a “glocal”...

Like Oyedokun, We are all Decapitated

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions,” William Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet (Act IV, Scene 5). Long before Shakespeare, the Greek tragedians had warned...

Memoirs that deepen controversy

The historic account presented to the public by former Head of State Yakubu Gowon is fascinating even from its title, “Book of Allegiance”. Gowon may not have penned it himself, bu...

“Woman of a Woman”: Sixty pages of glorious poetry, By Syl Cheney Coker

Some of Funke Awodiya’s poems have a lyrical beauty that reminds me the early Leopold Sehghor, extolling the beauty of African women, as in ‘Femne Noir.” Her lines have the colours...

Edwin Madunagu at 80: Celebrating the Conscience of Nigeria’s Popular Struggles

By ‘Sina Kawonise Edwin Madunagu at 80 is not merely a birthday milestone; it is the celebration of a living chapter of Nigeria’s conscience. For nearly six decades, Comrade Maduna...

Literary Passion: Dispatches from the front line

Good Friday HE IS dead. He has reached the end of his life. And they — the fragments of his following — have reached the end of his story. They have followed him as far as they c...