It boggles the mind when you consider how much this 19-year-old indigenous institution has been able to achieve in a country where the prevailing sentiment is that things never work. From the moment it commenced operation in 2003, Globacom has…
Understanding the synergy between Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and NEMA – Michael Jimoh
Trawling through twitter, this writer came across a tweet – HM @sadiya_farouq on an official visit to @nemanigeria. The DG updated the Hon. Minister @sadiya_farouq and the perm sec Jalal Arabi on the activities, interventions and responses of @nemanigeria with…
In search of the vanishing art of Nigeria’s literary criticism – Michael Jimoh
There was once a time when literary criticism occupied public space in Nigerian newspapers with popular pullouts like Guardian Literary Series and Post Express Literary Supplement. They are no more. Worse still, up-and-coming writers are oftentimes denied access to relevant…
America Today: Views from an innocent abroad – Michael Jimoh
Asked what he thought the single most important event in history was in his day, Otto von Bismarck said without hesitation: “the fact that North Americans speak English.” By that statement, the Iron Chancellor not only acknowledged the future dominance…
Remembering Ikeogu Oke – Michael Jimoh
On Friday, September 22, 2017, I met and spoke with, for the first time, Ikeogu Oke, one of three poets shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature the same year. Others were Ogaga Ifowodo and Tanure Ojaide. Three of them…
A marketer, clothier and now an artist -Michael Jimoh
As a graduate of marketing from an American university, Ebikebana Akpi, would have landed a plum job with any company worth its corporate name in Nigeria. As an American trained tailor, he would have had a long line of high…
Juliet Ezenwa Pearce: Lessons from Grandma -Michael Jimoh
You can count on your fingers the number of artists/painters whose beginning in art had some maternal influence. Henri Matisse is one famous example. Matisse was recuperating on a hospital bed when his mother presented him with a set of…