People in Action
Like every other text, (an essay, a textbook, a documentary, a cartoon, a text message, a novel and so on), the cover picture for this story is capable of a multiplicity of meanings. The chi... Read more
The week Queen Elizabeth 11 died cannot but be a turbulent week. It is difficult to be indifferent to the Queen whether one was her admirer or critic. She had a mystique and presence which 7... Read more
In the event of the dense scourge of pain, misery and saddness in Nigeria today, no politically conscious element is likely to be celebrating his or her birthday. Admirers and critics are, h... Read more
Post-independence Nigeria has been so defined by inter-group acrimony as to have left individuals and groups with terrible enemy images of the other persons and groups. The dynamics of the p... Read more
By Dan Okereke It was Alhaji Musa Illallah, my former News Editor and later senior colleague at Aluminum Smelting Company, (ALSCON), Ikot Abasi, who called to inform me of the death of our f... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The news of the death of Paul Esah Udenyi came typically Paul. It came as a broadcast on his WhatsApp number. The message was not beyond him at all, Paul being gifted in mak... Read more
By Ike Okonta Professor Patrick Utomi graciously received Chiedu Ezeanah, the poet and journalist, and I in his hotel suite in Rockview Hotel, Abuja on a rainy Friday evening in early July.... Read more
Whether one likes Serena Williams or one doesn’t, she is a global star. As a star, her idiosyncrasies tend to become reference points – the way she speaks, walks, what she wears and,... Read more
As Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, (OPEC), Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Barkindo must be one of the very few in the world with the most information about oi... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The wisdom that if the eye is not fixed on the sky, it has nowhere else to makes any sitting president vulnerable to probing engagement. There is though the late Prof Eskor T... Read more
