The sonorous songstress Onyeka Onwenu has just passed, but my duty here is to add the human angle to the legend of the goddess. Onyeka Onwenu, inimitable singer, ace broadcaster and classy actress took no prisoners in all her undertakings. …
Peter Obi decries Nigeria’s economic decline, calls for ethical leadership
Labour Party Presidential Candidate during the 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi, on Saturday emphasised Nigeria’s leadership deficiencies, echoing the sentiments of late iconic writer, Prof. Chinua Achebe. He argued that Nigeria’s challenges are not due to a lack of resources…
Odili Ujubuonu: 60 years of magic and memorable aesthetics — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Odili Ujubuonu is a Renaissance man, that is, he is among those rare beings who have their hands and grey matter in diverse pies. I guess I am only qualified to talk about his delivery in the field of literature…
Democracy Day: Electricity bill is larger than my salary — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Today has been declared a public holiday by the Nigerian Government to mark Democracy Day. May 29 used to be the Democracy Day until the then President Muhammadu Buhari put forward June 12 as the real McCoy. The greatest piece…
Let’s forge patriotism in Nigeria — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It’s quite easy to be misunderstood once any bloke talks about forging something in this country called Nigeria. There are so many accusations of forgeries all over the place such that even arguing for the forging of national unity may…
An airport for Achebe — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is a Chinua Achebe International Airport in Anambra State. It was a spectacular masterstroke from Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo when he renamed the Anambra Airport at Umueri after Chinua Achebe. The ovation that Soludo got when he made the…
Federal Republic of Fiction @ 63 — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigeria is fiction. The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new shelf in the library: the shelf containing fictional works. The latter-day patriots of Nigeria can cry all they want against me, but in this instance I only choose…
Good signals from Akwa Ibom — C. Don Adinuba
In the most cited line from his 1983 book, The Trouble With Nigeria, Chinua Achebe, raconteur, novelist, and thinker, declared that Nigeria’s problem is the leadership which, unable to rise to the true challenges of national development, cannot provide inspiring…
A toast to Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” @ 65 — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is astounding that Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is still so relevant across the globe at 65 years of age. Things Fall Apart was first published on June 17, 1958, by William Heinemann, London, and contains only 50,380 words, but it…
2023 Presidency: From polling booth to tribunal bench — Isidore Emeka Uzoatu.
The battle for the determination of the winner of the February 25th presidential election has since left the polling booth. What with a president elect already put in place (no pun intended), awaiting swearing in on the 29th day of…