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…
By Sikiru Obarayese, April 6, 2023. The All Progressives Congress (APC) Enugu state chapter has announced the expulsion of a former Governor of Enugu State, Barr. Sullivan Chime and the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr Osita Okechukwu. The party also expelled former Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon. Eugene Odo, an…
By Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN. Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges of falsifying business records in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday afternoon. Trump surrendered and was placed under arrest Tuesday before he was arraigned in a historic and unprecedented court appearance, in which the former…
We of the Labour Party (LP) in Enugu State have read, with much interest, a motion passed by the Enugu State House of Assembly urging President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to investigate the “ignoble role” of the military in the governorship and state assembly polls of March 18, 2023. At first we doubted…
APRIL 4, 2023 Disturbing Emerging Developments in Nigeria! 6.Despite the public denunciation of the fake audio call, its contents have been translated to other Nigerian languages and circulated in most parts of Northern Nigeria with some of our Moslem clerics deceived and instigated to use the contents for their sermons at various Mosques during the…
By Chinedu Adonu The speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Edward Ubosi on Tuesday said that the governorship and State House of Assembly election held on 18th of March was massively rigged. Ubosi made this known while accepting the motion presented at the plenary in Enugu on Tuesday by the member representing…
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…
