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Growing old is one of nature’s infuriating imperfections- Peter Enahoro The details of my sojourn across newsrooms in Lagos will be told hopefully later in a full memoir. This will…
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness ~Robert Frost LOLA Fabowale’s Nostalgia and Tears F’orile, a debut…
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To know anything, you have to know everything, or so I tell myself – no doubt to justify my gluttonous appetite for books – Robert Gottlieb THERE are some books you purchase…
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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference - David Almond  IN any endeavour you find yourself in,…
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Why are Nigerians able to walk on rivers abroad but often struggle to crawl at home? Why is it that these days, most Nigerians have to leave home to excel? – Nels Abbey (A…
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NIGERIAN novelist Ayobami Adebayo is among 12 other writers who made the 2023 Booker Prize list. The Booker Prize is Britain’s most prestigious literary prize open to all…
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday and no tomorrow. To forget time, to…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) marks May 31 of every year as World No Tobacco Day. The theme for this year is “Grow Food, Not Tobacco”. In this report, OLAYINKA OYEGBILE, in the…
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The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man - Dejan Stojanovic (A review of If An Eagle Cannot See, J. P. Anakwue, Agbalumo Editing Services, Lagos, 2023) POETRY is…
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He enjoys true leisure has time to improve his soul's estate - Henry David Thoreau 'Imagine what it would have been to have a Governor Sanwo-Olu visiting the book fair and…
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