I am vexing big time. Don’t ask, I repeat, don’t ask me who vexing don epp. And this vexing is not based on logistics either. These days, you see, almost on a daily basis, stories that defy logic and medicine in…
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…
Abeg no more palmwine from “Show Dem Camp” – Dami Ajayi
Circa 1920: Working class people living in colonised coastal cities in West Africa had a way of spending their evenings: when the sun was setting and the humid weather dips for people to catch some evening breeze and reminisce about…
Where is that mad man called Fukuyama?- Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Communism is dead! This is the fakest of fake news. Communism has never been more alive than it is in the world of today. Many pseudo-intellectuals and para-academics have made a meal of the so-called death of Communism. The time…
Men are also crying – Emeka Nwolisa
Justifiably and rightly so, intimate partner violence (IPV) now has society’s spotlight brightly beamed on it. It is also referred to as spousal violence or more commonly as domestic violence. More often females, usually termed the weaker sex, are at…
Wait, do you know how Nollywood was born? – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The other name for Nigeria is Nollywood. Scoff at it, laugh off the phenomenon, but there’s no denying Nollywood as the alter ego of Nigeria in the eyes of an astounded world. The Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles,…
LadiPoe aka Poe is feeling alright-Dami Ajayi
Since his foretaste of limelight on Show Dem Camp’s smash hit “Feel Alright” which was preceded by his debut stellar appearance on the duo’s Victoria Island of Broken Dreams, the word on the street has been that the rap game…
Naija people sabi give tribal marks- Emeka Nwolisa
Fela in his monstrous 1976 hit,Yellow fever, sang “Different different fever na im dey Different different fever na im dey Different different fever na im dey Different different fever na im dey Malaria fever nko? e dey! Jaundice fever nko?…
Ifeajuna: Sports hero forgotten by history- Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
He was the wunderkind who won Nigeria’s first ever gold medal at a world-class sporting competition. He was equally the first Nigerian to lead a military coup! They no longer make men like Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna was yet to…