Tag: TheNEWS/P.M.NEWS
Celebrating Adetokunbo Sofoluwe 1950-2012
By Funmilayo Sofoluwe My first encounter with Adetokunbo was in the 1960s through my older brother when they both attended…
Tackling Corruption In The Judiciary
By Akunna Ejim That corruption is one of the banes of Nigeria is no news to anyone with even the…
Birthday Notes To A Lost Nirvana
By Femi Osofisan I know Kole Omotoso. Wrong. I used to know Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian writer. Some thirty years…
Nebo: The New Spirit In The Power Sector
By Sunny Igboanugo When the Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Ositadimma Nebo, stood before the Senate earlier this year to…
Addressing The Menace Of Child Molestation And Rape
By Akunna Ejim A seven-year-old child, living with her aunt in Delta state, was repeatedly molested and raped by a…
Boko Haram: A People’s Alternative To Peace
By Adewale Adeoye Recently, tear-soaked Mrs. Deborah Shettima from Borno State gave a gory account of how her husband was…
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…
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…
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…
Achebe’s Apocalyptic Valediction
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Chinua Achebe appeared on the world stage in grand style by way of the epochal novel,…
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.…
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…
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…
The Passing Of A Literary Troubadour
By Wale Okediran Like many Nigerian students, who offered Literature in secondary school, I first met Achebe on the pages…
Chinua Achebe – The Icon, The Legacy
By Akuna Ejim “Things fall apart and the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,…” This refrain…