When a great man dies, the general rave is to read his repetitive biographical details all over the newspapers and online. It’s currently the case with the inimitable Peter Enahoro, alias Peter Pan, the legendary Nigerian journalist who recently passed…
Veteran Journalist, Enahoro, dies at 88
Veteran Nigerian Journalist, Peter Enahoro has died at the age of 88. Enahoro, fondly known by his pen name, Peter Pan, died in London, the United Kingdom on Monday. This was announced in a statement by Nigeria’s foremost female journalist,…
Chairman of the party — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The inimitable Peter Enahoro, aka Peter Pan, wrote in his classic book, How To Be A Nigerian: “Next to God, there is nothing that fills the heart of the Nigerian with greater awe than a Chairman.” According to Peter Enahoro,…
See how Nigerian elections are bought and sold like suya -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There’s this book by Peter Enahoro entitled You Gotta Laugh to Cry. The so-called democratic elections in Nigeria almost always end up making all Nigerians laugh to cry. Let’s start from Nigeria’s much-ballyhooed return to democracy in 1999 during which…
Let’s destroy all the columnists! – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The acute hatred in my heart now-now, as we do say in Nigeria, is about the characters called columnists. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired over the antics of the jobbers of Nigerian journalism who call…
Oya, read the untold story of me and my fellow columnists – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigerian journalism revels in its rich history of legendary reporters – and even more legendary columnists. For a rookie starting out as a columnist in a newspaper, it is indeed daunting to deign to bear the burden of extending the…
How NOT to be a Nigerian -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The Englishman feeds his dog with bones. The Nigerian feeds his dog with chocolate. The difference is chocoholic. There are no bones in chocolate. In his classic How to be a Nigerian, Peter Enahoro, aka Peter Pan, recounts the…