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  By  Ebuka Ukoh October 20, 2020, was an unforgettable Tuesday. Then, I sat at home, watching DJ Switch’s Instagram livestream, my phone ...

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  By Chiwuike Uba A group of Nigerian academics has launched a petition against the misuse of “Dr.” and “Professor” titles. Their outrage ...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi (This article was first published in 2007...) The recent international recognition of the literary excellence of ou...

  By Obi Nwakanma I have made this point at various points in this column, that for a nation to claim “independence,” or legitimacy, it mu...

  By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye March 21 was here again recently. On this particular day in 2013, Professor Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s mo...

  By Tony Eluemunor “I prefer to be accused of nastiness than to join in the national pastime of consigning events of a few years ago into...

  By Obi Nwakanma Twenty years ago, the alumni of the Government College Umuahia first met in the United States, and decided to take on th...

  Press Release Achebe Masterworks Announces Development Deal with A24 for TV Series Adaptation of Things Fall Apart In a landmark collabora...

  By Ikechukwu Amaechi I had very instructive discussions with two A-list Nigerian politicians before and after the Edo State governorship...

  By Elvis Eromosele “An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.” This is a popular saying from Chinua Acheb...

  By Banji Ojewale Most of us agree with Chinua Achebe, Africa’s late literary colossus, that Nigeria’s chief post-Independence headache h...

  By Charles Onunaiju President Bola Tinubu and his administration bask in the euphoria that they have taken some “tough” and “courageous”...

  By Banji Ojewale One of the captivating political campaign lines of MKO Abiola has been immortalized in a seminal work by Professor Tund...

  By Tony Eluemunor What Nigeria is going through now, be it religious, ethnic, social, political and economic, national insecurity, uncon...

  By Ikechukwu Amaechi Dr Betta Edu, the vivacious and chirpy politician from Cross River State, must be introspecting now. Just yesterday...

  By Sunny Awhefeada   I do not know why countries or na­tions are thought of in feminine forms (she/her). Perhaps, it is a strategy to en...

  By  Uzor Maxim Uzoatu  The  man fondly called Zik of Africa deserves his day.  Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first...

  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There is a Chinua Achebe International Airport in Anambra State.  It was a spectacular masterstroke from Governor C...

  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Nigeria is fiction. The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new shelf in the library: the shelf contai...