How two neighbours found love.
Santa Claus gave me a priceless gift on December 25 2007. Back in November, Adaoma assured me over the phone that she would spend the Christmas in Lagos. ‘‘Are you sure?’’ I asked. ‘‘You always [...]
Dear Chuka, Happy Christmas. I guess those are the most dishonest words I have ever written in a long while. For starters, I do not believe in Christmas-every historical indicator indicates that the one [...]
The shaft of life, the glorious staff of office that empowers the bearded bipeds to sit on the throne of manhood. Surging like a deluge with the currents of creamy, viscous life-chargers. The plough which [...]
That afternoon I was as broke as a broken pot. I was suffering from that peculiar pennilessness which prevented even a coin from being concealed in my pockets. A staff meeting had been going on [...]
Honestly, there is no big deal about Chinua Achebe’s rejection of the offer of one million dollars by 50 cent for the movie rights to the title of his novel ‘Things Fall Apart.’ It is [...]
On July 6 1967, the guns of the Nigerian army opened up in Garkem near Ogoja in present-day Cross Rivers State in the secessionist enclave of Biafra. That military activity, otherwise described as a ‘police [...]