Big Brother Naija, BBNaija for short, is one television show that no Nigerian can ever escape from. Whether you like to watch it or not, it is always there in your face because the kids and the wives cannot have…
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…
A letter to Chinua Achebe in the grave -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nna-anyi, this will definitely not be a long letter, especially now that I am writing to you inside the earth of the ancestors. I like my things short and sharp like Things Fall Apart, not long and heavy for I’m…
Primitive banking in Awka, Anambra State -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
People who have known me over time can attest to the fact that I am quite good at doing public service. It is, thanks to this advertisement for myself, that I am undertaking the public service of advising all Nigerians…
This Oba man called Obi Cubana -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nothing has shaken up Nigeria in recent times than the astounding burial of Obi Cubana’s mother in Oba town in Anambra State. The social media space was entirely taken over by all makes of accounts concerning the larger-than-life-and-death burial ceremonies. …
When Obasanjo & Uba Brothers Dealt With Anambra State – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
In the halcyon days of his regime, President Olusegun Obasanjo touted Christianity and Pharisaical prayers. He had a sedulous apostle in then Anambra Governor, Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju, who took his hebdomadal prayers to the heart of Onitsha Main Market. When…
From home to Rome football quakes the earth -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Football is earthquake larger than the Richter scale. I should know because I played the game. In certain locales more people know me as an expired football player than even as a journalist or poet. It’s my attachment to the…
87 spells immortality in the Wole Soyinka canon – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
He was so daring early in life that nobody thought he would live up to 87 years on this earth. But here we are: Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka, that is, Wole Soyinka for short, is 87 today. On my small…
From wild, wild west to national inferno – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
A seemingly innocuous spark in an otherwise isolated part of a nation can change the course of history. Nigerian history as we have it today owes its shape to the handling or mishandling of the Action Group crisis of the…
The example of Viko TV -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Television can be quite arresting, especially if one is in the studio being served news, politics, the economy and sports in real time. It was in a soft afternoon of mild showers that I walked into the sprawling premises of…