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Football, Sports

Injured Emenike Back In Training

According to the official website of Spartak Moscow, Nigeria international, Emmanuel Emenike, is gradually recovering from the thigh injury he…

Football, Sports

Nigeria Can Win U-20 World Cup

Nigeria’s Umar Aminu finished as top scorer of the just concluded African Youth Championship, AYC, in Algeria. He told MTNFootball.com…

Sports

Lagos Team Shine In Abuja

Reigning champions, First Deepwater Basketball Club and former champions, First Bank of Lagos won their respective groups to emerge champions…

Football, Sports, World News

Driving Offence: Tevez Bags 250hr Community Service

Argentina forward Carlos Tevez has been sentenced to 250 hours of community service for driving while disqualified and without insurance.…

Books

In Celebration Of A Master Carver

By Kunle Ajibade There is an anecdote in this well-produced coffee table book with which I would like to begin…

Metro, News

League of Imams backs amnesty for Boko Haram

League of Imams in North-Central zone of the country on Tuesday expressed support for amnesty for the Boko Haram sect…

Metro, News

Study: Diabetes linked with low sleep hormone levels

A decrease in levels of the sleep hormone melatonin has been linked to an increased risk of adult onset diabetes,…

Football, Sports, World News

Messi injury highlights PSG-Barca draw

Blaise Matuidi’s goal deep in stoppage time earned Paris Saint Germain a deserved 2-2 draw in in their Champions League…

Metro, News

Police Quiz Ekiti ACN chairman over murder allegation

The Police in the Nigerian western state of Ekiti on Tuesday invited the Chairman of ACN in the state, Chief…

Metro, News

Shot Man Seeks N200m From Nigerian Navy

Jamiu Yisa An operation manager with Yusmed Oil and Gas Company, Atom Zaga, who was shot by unidentified naval personnel…

Metro, News

Nigeria: 6776 applicants scramble for 200 jobs

To underscore the acute unemployment in Nigeria, no fewer than 6,776 job-seekers have been short-listed for 200 job positions at…

Metro, News

Man, 62, Beaten To Death During Forceful Eviction

A 62-year old man, Sunday Uche Michael,  has allegedly been beaten to death at Aboru, Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria. At…

Headlines, Metro, News

Police Parade Seven Airport Robbers

The Lagos State Police Command today paraded seven suspected armed robbers said to have carried out the robbery attack on…

Business

Shell To Shut Plundered Nigeria Oil Pipeline

Shell plans to temporarily shut a key oil pipeline in southern Nigeria later this month to repair damage caused by…

Business

Dana Air Crashes Fares

Dana Air has crashed fares on its Lagos-Abuja-Lagos route to N15,300, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday, as…

Football, Sports

NFF Holds Exams For FIFA Agents Thursday

Nigeria Football Federation, NFF will on Thursday in Abuja hold the first examination of the year for prospective FIFA Players’…

News, Opinion

Achebe: A Non-Romantic View

By Ibrahim Bello-Kano There is no doubt that Chinua Achebe, who died last week in the United States after a…

Interview, News

Achebe Died When Biafra Dream Died

Captain Elechi Amadi, the great author, school mate to the late Chinua Achebe at Government College, Umuahia, spoke to OKAFOR…

Interview, News

How Achebe Rose To Stardom

Odia Ofeimun, poet, literary critic and socio-political commentator, in this interview with ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE, appraises the life and writings of…

News

The Media And Achebe’s Death

Hours after he passed on, the name Chinua Achebe became the buzz on traditional and social media around the world…

News, Opinion

Chinua Achebe: A Writer And A Half And More

By Akin Adesokan He sits there in the front row, looking baffled by the effusion of encomiums falling all around…

News, Opinion

Achebe And I

By Nduka Otiono No one who met the venerable Chinua Achebe–in flesh and blood or in his writings–would ever forget…

Headlines, Interview, News

The Achebe I Knew -Ex-Classmate

Mabel Segun, a writer, apart from being born the same year as the late Professor Chinua Achebe, was in the…

News, Opinion

Omotoso: The Essential Of Achebe

Avuncular is the easiest word that comes to mind for me in describing Chinua Achebe, who has joined his ancestors.…

Interview, News

Where Achebe Erred -Tanimu Abubakar

Professor Tanimu Abubakar, teacher of Comparative Literature at the Ahmadu Bello University, tells FEMI ADI where the late Professor Chinua…
Prof. Niyi Osundare

News, Opinion

Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws?

By Niyi Osundare Chinua Achebe is one of those epically unique individuals whose lives have been so full, so purposive…

News, Opinion

Achebe’s Apocalyptic Valediction

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Chinua Achebe appeared on the world stage in grand style by way of the epochal novel,…

News, Opinion

Paying For Achebe’s Snub

By Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo Like everyone else, I am saddened by the death of Chinua Achebe, one of Africa’s greatest minds.…

News, Opinion

Achebe Is Africa’s Shakespeare

By Festus Ayayi I knew Chinua Achebe in the early 80s when he was President of Association of Nigerian Authors…

News, Opinion

Curtain-Call For The Eagle

By Tunde Olusunle Over the years, Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo and I have had the good fortune of regularly hosting a good…