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. …
Audit Reporting Mission from Lagos to Awka — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There was an invasion of Awka, the capital of Anambra State, by a troika of Nigeria’s savviest journalists, and another guru served as a supporting voice from the United States of America. The invading journalists happened to be all my…
And the man nearly died — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Some stories are impossible to wipe from the mind, especially if one had a ringside seat in the unfolding of the macabre act. An old friend ran into me recently at a sporting event, and all he wanted me to…
Meet Azuka Jebose the maddest madman of the newsroom – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
I can name all the madmen in the history of Nigerian journalism, but the maddest of them all happens to be Azuka Jebose Molokwu. He is madder than the entire Yaba-Left and Aro Mental Hospital Abeokuta put together! Let him…
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…
Meet my godfather, Sonala Olumhese – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
I have a confession to make – I have a godfather, but he never asked me to swear to an oath of allegiance at Okija Shrine – or wherever. It started way back in 1985 when I ran into a…
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…