It is in my DNA to make very powerful enemies. It’s as though I cannot stop myself from fighting diabolical principalities and powers, and their agents and toadies. Only the other day, some of my buddies in the Association of…
Nigeria’s first female perm sec, Francesca Emanuel, dies at 86
Nigeria’s first female federal permanent secretary, Francesca Emanuel, has died at the age of 86. Qed.ng learnt that Mrs. Emanuel died on Tuesday night of natural causes. Born Francesca Yetunde Pereira in Lagos on September 19, 1933, Emanuel was an…
ANA’s Tribute: Pius Adesanmi in life, death and vocation as a writer-scholar – Denja Abdullahi and Ofonime Inyang
Death came visiting the Nigerian writing house yet again. This time it left with a pricy catch in the person of Pius Adesanmi, literary star, critic, essayist, columnist, teacher, poet, and foremost intellectual. In an ill- fated plane tragedy in…
Chidi Okoye: Uncommon enterprise and breakthrough of dogged artist – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Artists do not come of a harder hue than light-skinned sculptor, painter and poet Chidi A. Okoye. A firm believer in the creative enterprise, Okoye has applied his art diligently in Nigeria, Canada and the United States, surmounting all kinds…
Only the Poet can write on nothing – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nothing is the only subject I’ve not written about. Nothing is what I want to write on now to complete my cycle of writing on everything. Nothing survived the fire that burnt my house back then save The Quotable Nothing…