By Edoka Itodo Nigerian disc jockey, Florence Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has doled out £100,000 (N58 million) to the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) to support postgraduate students from Africa at the University of Oxford. The billionaire heiress made the donation through the Cuppy Africa Oxford Scholars Fund. According to the music star, “The…
Chinua Achebe was a novelist. Wole Soyinka is a playwright. I know most of you didn’t know this, but there is really no basis for comparison between the two. It’s like comparing Sunny Ade and Oliver De Coque because they are both singers. Chinua Achebe also deserved the Nobel Prize no doubt, but he never…
Achebe was more like a true African spirit on a mission to provide a counter narrative to the faulty (rac!st) Western narrative of Africa and Africans; narratives told to maintain the supremacy of the Whites. Achebe’s literary “sin”, why he can never deserve the Nobel Laureates title was simply because his works questioned Joseph Conrad’s…
The Obi-Datti Movement has said supporters of the Labor Party, LP, otherwise known as “Obidients” and the party’s vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, are ready for a televised debate challenge by Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka. The spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Movement, Professor Chris Nwakobia, disclosed this in an interview with Arise TV on Saturday. Speaker…
By Maryam Abdullahi Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, says the process of the Nigeria presidential election was not marred by technical faults but deliberately manipulated. In a letter addressed to Joe Biden, the US president, Adichie expressed dissatisfaction over the process of the presidential election conducted on February 25. She said the election was full…
Former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, has written a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, alleging among other things that the former Lagos State governor was instrumental to the brutal attack meted against Igbos during the presidential, national assembly, governorship and state assembly elections. In a petition written…
A group of lawyers under the auspices of “National Lawyers Coalition for Peter Obi” has dragged the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, The Netherlands, over “organized crimes against humanity”. This was contained in a petition addressed to the Office of the…
The attached Lamborghini Used To Belong To A Very Young Igbo Billionaire”: A Look At Victor Okafor AKA Ezego’s Vintage Lamborghini Victor Nnamdi Okafor, AKA Ezego, was a chieftaincy title holder, and an affluent Igbo billionaire businessman born in Ihiala, Anambra, on the 25th of December 1964. Sadly, the billionaire died on the 25 of…
By Oluyemi Ogunseyin Former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has announced the death of his first wife, Mrs. Ifeoma Kalu. The Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District confirmed the sad news on Monday in a statement made available to the media. “With a heavy heart and pain, we announce the passing on to…
She’s the founder of LEAP Africa with over 25 years of international development experience and a globally recognized serial entrepreneur, author, public speaker, and consultant. Nwuneli serves on the boards of the Boards of over 7 organizations and has received major continental and global awards including Alumni Achievement Award from Harvard Business School (2021), Forbes…
