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What In Hell Is Odogwu Doing In Lagos? By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Global UpfrontApr 28, 2021April 28, 20210

Odogwu came on transfer to Lagos from Enugu, and put up in the apartment of his writer friend Muritala Sule in Surulere. His plan was

The Rage of Mbize Erosion in Southeast Nigeria, By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Global UpfrontApr 18, 2021April 18, 20210

Mbize: Rage of Red Earth (Stories, Songs on Landslide, Erosion in Igboland) by Chuka Nnabuife; Heinrich Boll Stiftung; 2011 The erosion menace in Southeast Nigeria

Pastors & Prostitutes By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Global UpfrontMar 27, 2021March 27, 20210

It is a lot easier to live a celibate life than to stay faithful to one wife. Right from the Garden of Eden, it’s written

The Most Dangerous House In Lagos By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Global UpfrontMar 24, 2021March 24, 20210

A do-gooder told his landlord that any tenant who sends the Police after the owner of the house “is capable of killing you.” This selfsame

Ojukwu: Nigeria’s Most Controversial Patriot By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Global UpfrontMar 1, 2021March 1, 20210

Ojukwu: The ‘Rebel’ I Served by Uche Ezechukwu; ThoniMartins Ltd, Abuja, Benin, Lagos; 2012 Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu almost always dominated all discourse in the course of

Remembering Obi B. Egbuna, By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Global UpfrontFeb 25, 2021February 25, 20210

It is astonishing to me that the Nigerian media cannot bear testimony to the passage of one of Nigeria’s greatest ever writers more than six

‘I don’t believe you are in charge,’ Soyinka hits Buhari over rising insecurity

Global UpfrontFeb 11, 2021February 11, 20210

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Thursday said he does not believe President Muhammadu Buhari is in charge of the country. Reacting to the rising

The Mystique of Maxim By Sanya Osha

Global UpfrontFeb 2, 2021February 2, 20210

(For Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate, on the occasion of his 60th birthday) “NA poor I poor no bi craze I craze,” the oft-repeated phrase is

Explosive new book claims the KGB began grooming ‘young and vain’ Donald Trump 40 years ago by saving him from financial ruin

Global UpfrontJan 27, 2021January 27, 20210

And was turned into a Russian asset who as President gave Putin ‘everything he wanted’ American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related

I’m Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America – Excerpt from former President Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land

Global UpfrontNov 13, 2020November 13, 20200

Excerpt from former President Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land I wrote my book for young people—as an invitation to bring about, through hard