Writing for Time magazine against all odds — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Let’s just agree that it is every journalist’s dream in the world to have an article written by him published in Time magazine.  That’s the magazine that published the splendid pieces by such master columnists and essayists as Lance Morrow…

The most impossible article ever written — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

The most challenging article ever written by me was published in Time magazine.  It was one of the many friends of mine who had been asking me to write my autobiography who wanted me to tell him of the most…

On Leadership: Analysis of the pride & prejudices of President Buhari -Magnus Onyibe

In his no-holds-barred interview on AriseTV, broadcast on 10th June 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a position that he ascended since May 29, 2015, basically responded…

A toast to Too-much-money: Ambassador Chief Kem Ajieh @ 60 – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Today is different. It’s the birthday of Toomuchmoney. He would have jetted off to London to mark it but the pandemic has rooted him in Nigeria. Not to worry, though, because he can make things happen anytime, anywhere, no matter…

Sonala strikes sixty-five – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Friday, May 15, in this Corona-tainted year of 2020 marks the 65th birthday of the inimitable journalist’s journalist Sonala Olumhense. I doubt that I would ever have become a journalist if not for my eventful meeting with the man called…

Nduka Obaigbena and the miracle called ThisDay -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

I have seen many miracles happen before my very eyes. Back in 1986, the guru who brought me into journalism, Sonala Olumhense, resigned from his job as the Editorial Page Editor of The Guardian to take up the almost unfathomable…

My name is Maxim, Obi of Ikate – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Many moons ago, long before Toni Kan became the Mayor of Lagos, I was crowned the Obi of Ikate, the overcrowded suburbia of Surulere, Lagos. I lived upstairs, in a cramped two-bedroom back-flat on Olushola-Keku Street, towards the right end…

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