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There Is Only One Awilo

Global UpfrontJan 1, 2025January 1, 20250

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu This is the festive season, and I am live in the village, rocking like mad. All the talk about insecurity is

Inside The Budding Jungle City Of Stars

Global UpfrontDec 25, 2024December 25, 20240

By Uzo Maxim Uzoatu The road to Ajegunle is rough. On this hot Lagos noonday the rickety, overcrowded kombi bus takes almost an eternity to

Zik Mausoleum At Onitsha Needs Attention

Global UpfrontDec 18, 2024December 18, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu A boon companion has just taken me to Onitsha, the city on the bank of the River Niger in Anambra State,

Kunle Ajibade: The Legend Of Conscience Abacha Could Not Kill

Global UpfrontDec 11, 2024December 11, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Even in the darkest of days and nights in Nigeria, there are adorable persons to celebrate in fine fettle. Kunle Ajibade,

Death Of The Liberian Warlord General Prince Yomi Johnson

Global UpfrontDec 4, 2024December 4, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The news of the death of the controversial Liberian warlord General Prince Yomi Johnson has just reached me. The man became

Garden Of Eden in Anambra State

Global UpfrontNov 27, 2024November 27, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu His sight was set far ahead, beyond the realm of the room. Silence was the compelling essence as he looked on,

Unstoppable Ngozi Wahala

Global UpfrontNov 13, 2024November 13, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu It’s not for nothing that she is fondly referred to as Ngozi Wahala in many enlightened quarters. Truth is they no

The Return Of Kwashiorkor

Global UpfrontNov 6, 2024November 6, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It

Rigger Takes All

Global UpfrontOct 30, 2024October 30, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Nigeria is in a class of its own. Other countries may talk of “winner takes all”, but in Nigeria the standing

This Fiction Called Nigeria

Global UpfrontOct 27, 2024October 27, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There is a new hard-hitting book on my desk entitled This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce.