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OURS was a meeting of minds on the OP-ED pages of The Guardian in the 1980s. He signed off his articles as “Motor-Park Economist” while I signed off my pieces as “Peasant Theatre…
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'At 73, Odia Ofeimun has an encyclopaedic mind that is as alert as ever. He still commits all his hours to just causes... Let’s toast to the health of the master poet and indefatigable…
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' 'What the next President of Nigeria needs to do is to organize a proper national conference. The country should be delineated into constituencies for the election of the…
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'It gladdens my soul that I was very much around when Ifeanyi Igwebike Mbanefo was putting together the initial bolts and nuts of the Nigerian Prizes. He would come to be with some of…
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' 'One is not arguing that only First Class candidates can rule, but there is the need for fine minds to run a country such that university teachers cannot be on strike for all of…
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A generation of Nigerians and other denizens of the world have experienced every step of Nollywood since 1992. Is Nollywood a cultural renaissance? THE Nollywood phenomenon started…
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' '...it’s the absence of thrilling literature that has made the young ones to take to mind-bending drugs like Codeine and Tramadol! Instead of having reefers in their jeans…
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'Beyond all the seriousness associated with the man, Soyinka is at heart a jovial soul... From teaching the art of wine to a young Italian girl to setting a trap for wine-stealers in…
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'I think a miracle can save the day for Nigeria by following offering of legendary Nigerian novelist, T.M. Aluko, in his last novel Our Born Again President' published in…
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'A good Igbo presidential material, chosen dispassionately, will lead Nigeria to peace, prosperity and progress. It must bear repetition. A good Igbo presidential material, not one…
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