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 keeps saying that one of the wonders of the world…
Biyi Bandele who came in from the back of beyond — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
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) after I had graduated from the school where Prof Wole…
The most dangerous house in Lagos – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
A do-gooder told his landlord that any tenant who sends the police after the owner of the house “is capable of killing you.” This selfsame Tenant Do-Good not only called the police on the landlord but capped it all up…
The Mystique of Maxim – Sanya Osha
(For Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate, on the occasion of his 60th birthday) “NA poor I poor no bi craze I craze,” the oft-repeated phrase is a defining axiom in Uzor Maxim Uzoatu’s text of street knowledge. My most inspiring times…
Chief Olayinka Olasehinde Simoyan: In Service to the Nation – Adewale Maja-Pearce
Chief Simoyan, who died on 29 October 2019, was born on 1 February 1934 in Egbe, Kogi State to Mr Angus Aremu and Madam Yeyeolu Simoyan. He grew up on the farm and was home-tutored by his father until the…
