•Obidiegwu It was a merry day that transmuted into a garlanded night. The Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) Christmas Fiesta 2023 that took place at Oma Event Centre, by Ekwueme Square, Awka on Friday, December 15 was a grand panoply of…
Emeka Ozumba: A profile in industry — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The overarching consensus amongst his compatriots is that Emeka Ozumba is unassuming but quietly effective. Cool, calm, calculated and compassionate, the personable go-getter clocks 60 years of age on December 11, 2023. A fresh prince of the diamond jubilee, Emeka…
Mighty-Mighty of astonishing philanthropy — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Anything can happen on the spur of the moment to shake up the earth in this age of social media and its so-called influencers. I was just minding my business the other day, wondering at the devastating Nigerian economy, when…
An airport for Achebe — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is a Chinua Achebe International Airport in Anambra State. It was a spectacular masterstroke from Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo when he renamed the Anambra Airport at Umueri after Chinua Achebe. The ovation that Soludo got when he made the…
Dancing to the music of a ticking time-bomb — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It’s a terrible Nigerian fate that every so-called democratic election is delivered like a ticking time-bomb primed to explode with fatal menace. The unfathomable aspect of the matter is that some Nigerians dance to the ticking of the time-bomb thinking…
How not to kill yourself over a woman — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There’s this recent sad news of a pastor in Nnewi, Anambra State who killed himself after being jilted by a lover. A hot tear for the suicidal man of God! One wag who claims to be my friend has just…
Ideology of alcoholism — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is only through the ideology of alcoholism that one can triumph over the absurd theatre happening in Nigeria today. The brazen stealers of Nigerian elections will almost always tell you: Go to court! I will rather go to the…
The Collapse of the Nigerian Tripod — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigeria today stands on wobbly legs, and wants needs to be done to make the country to stand steady and strong is to go back to where the rain started beating the country in the modern day. At independence in…
Bookdoctors opens submissions call for creative non-fiction literary travelogue
Bookdoctors Ventures Publishing Lagos, with its project editors- Sunny Ayewanu and Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, is calling on writers to submit individual essays on their unique and extraordinary international travel experiences. Such experiences, according to a statement, should be inspired by…