Showing posts with label Odia Ofeimun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Odia Ofeimun. Show all posts
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Bayo Onanuga: Spewing Ethnic Hatred As Weapon Against Mass Hunger

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  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu These are very dangerous days in Nigeria.   “These are times that try men’s souls,” as the founding father of Ame...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Nigeria: Using Torchlight In Broad Daylight

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  By Owei Lakemfa There is a country called Nigeria. For three decades, its coffers were daily looted in the guise of fuel subsidy. The lo...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

A Toast To Odia Ofeimun At 73

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  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There is no better way of introducing Odia Ofeimun than pointedly stressing that “Odia Ofeimun is Odia Ofeimun!”  E...
Friday, December 2, 2022

Poet Of The People: Niyi Osundare

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  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu   Poets from all over the world today do not come any loftier than Nigeria’s Niyi Osundare. In my book, he is the n...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Whither Nigeria?

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  By Odia Ofeimun Each time it was discovered that the ship of state was foundering, without compass, and no one seemed to have a handle on ...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Odia Ofeimun: The Writer And His Society

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By Dan Amor When it dawned on me recently that my boss, Odia Ofeimun would turn 70 today, I was confused. I was confused not because I did...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

I Celebrate Buhari For Killing APC

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By Erasmus Ikhide On July 31st, 2013 a day after All Progressives Congress (APC) was registered by Independent National Electoral Commiss...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Swan Song Of The Iroko: The Life, Time And Works Of Chinua Achebe: The Lessons For Nigeria

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By Professor Umelo Ojinmah (Paper presented at the Memorial Symposium in Honour of Professor Chinua Achebe by Association of Nigerian  A...