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…
The oldest man in the world is a Nigerian — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The white man can never get tired of discovering something. Ever since Mungo Park discovered the River Niger, every white man flies into Nigeria with the aim of making a discovery or two or three. Just the other day, after…
A toast to Mandela Garden in Nigeria – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The Mandela Garden and Suites in Asaba can arrest all tourists with exquisite panache and sublime aesthetics. The celebrated citizen of the world, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been there to plant a tree in celebration of the immortal Nelson Rolihlahla…
How to heed the call for pentecostal presidency — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The power game is on in Nigeria, and the heavy weight of religion has been pulled in for good measure. There is the deafening controversy of a Muslim-Muslim ticket that is being countered with the point that a Christian-Christian ticket…
There is acute and chronic Obi-session in Nigeria — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is obsession and there is Obi-session. The diff, as the advert says, is clear. The 2078-page Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language bought for me by the legendary South African poet, Dennis Brutus, in the University of…
How to end the endless Biafra war — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is 52 long years since the much-ballyhooed end of the Nigeria-Biafra war, yet nobody from the losing end of the war has served as the president of the country. The matter gets even more ridiculous when it is remembered…
Let me tell you about the president of political jumpology — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Political Jumpology is the modern day art form of jumping from one political party to the other. More acerbic writers would rather call the matter by a different name: political prostitution. There is no need to call names here because…
How the English football league is colonising Nigeria all over again — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The English Premiership League (EPL), is the one and only colonial power ruling all over Nigeria today. The beautiful game of football being played in England has put Nigeria’s murky politics in the shade as a sidekick, a pathetic second…
Governor Fayemi and the moneybag syndrome — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Big money is betrothed to big power. With plenteous cash in the war-chest, the ambitious politician can hardly ever resist the drive to grab presidential power. Nigeria is poised on the grand highway of the momentous 2023 presidential election, and…
How Obasanjo’s letter got Nigeria into this mess -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigeria is in deep trouble, and there is no use whatsoever beating about the bush over the bad matter. As I write now, the country is reeling from the barbaric act of some Muslim students stoning to death and burning…
