I write to plead with the Nigeria Police Force. Of course, it’s hard to compose this entreaty without a swift ricochet of transferred aggression. Nevertheless, it is increasingly exigent that I do it as I feel obliged. The word “buts”…
“Scammers are using my name to scam people” – Onyeka Nwelue
Scam alert Onyeka Nwelue, writer, filmmaker, teacher, and literary tastemaker has alerted the public to the activities of scammer(s) who are impersonating him on social media to hoodwink gullible Nigerians wishing to travel abroad. In a series of social media…
There is only one Onyeka Nwelue — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is in my constitution to celebrate Onyeka Nwelue, no matter whatever anybody reads elsewhere. The much-ballyhooed news out of Oxford or Cambridge on Onyeka Nwelue should be better understood in a better context with the passage of Father Time. …
The Enigmatic Onyeka Nwelue — Akachi Ezeigbo
This is an intervention I consider very appropriate at this time, following a brief period of hibernation from active participation in the Social Media. I have gradually emerged from the shock I experienced when I read the avalanche of mostly…
Beyond Nwelue: An Enabling Environment -Wole Soyinka speaks on the Onyeka Nwelue/ Oxford imbroglio
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has weighed in on the Onyeka Nwelue/ Oxford imbroglio, saying that “beyond Nwelue, that very society is indicted and summoned to some intense soul-searching, involving remedial action”. Recall that Nwelue, an author, filmmaker, tastemaker, and…
Onyeka Nwelue apologises to Oxford University
Onyeka Nwelue, writer, filmmaker, teacher, and literary tastemaker, has reacted to the termination of his Academic Visitor status at the University of Oxford. The termination was conveyed to Onyeka Nwelue via a one-line email from Professor Larmer Miles, Director, of…
David Hundeyin named University of Cambridge Fellow
The Distinguished James Currey Fellowship 2023 and residence in Cambridge as Academic Visitor at the Centre of African Studies in the University of Cambridge has been awarded to Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin. The Distinguished James Currey Fellowship is the…
Mitterand Okorie named University of Oxford Fellow
The Distinguished James Currey Fellowship, 2022/23 and residence in Oxford as Academic Visitor at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, has been awarded to Nigerian writer and academic, Mitterand Okorie, by the Management of the University of Oxford. The…
Onyeka Nwelue joins University of Cambridge’s Centre of African Studies as visiting scholar
Nigerian writer, filmmaker, publisher and bookseller, Onyeka Nwelue, will serve as a visiting scholar at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, Nwelue announced on his social media handles, Tuesday morning. Nwelue will visit the…
Obituary: Sir Chukwuemeka Samuel Nwelue
One of the cognoscenti, politician, and lover of books, who played a key role in forming government policy on peace in rural areas and environment in Imo State. Sir Chukwuemeka Samuel Nwelue, who has died at 77 years, was a…
