Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (From the Archive) Grrreat Izzons! Eh! Grrrrreat Izzzzzons!! Ehhhhhhhhhh!! I salute you. I salute our ancestors. I salute the gods of our lands and waters.After all, if water salutes the throat, the throat will open for it. If canoe salutesthe waves, the waves […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Good afternoon, distinguished guests, members of the University community, colleagues, friends and family, ladies and gentlemen of the Press. It is my honor to welcome you to the 124th Inaugural Lecture Series of the University of Jos. Today’s lecturer is Professor Ezekiel Major […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow What’s the meaning of that, “Taurus Me, Taurus You”? KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU. Na lie! Uro! Talk true nah! Abi ABBA dey sing for your ears? Not a Case of ABA or OWERRI singing for my earlobes but I will talk true, the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow They both reach the 90th Milestone the same year. One was born in February, 1936. The other followed closely in April, the month jointly agreed to be their month of celebration this year. Wow! Theirs is an incredible tale of love, passion and […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow In Opilogue surrealism walks on all legs of the millipede. Really? And there are always many rivers to cross. The Living Spring. The Warm Spring of the Ikogosi pedigree. Or even the NigerBenue, our own Missouri Mississippi Siamese twin rivers. Of all the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow You won’t believe it. But there she was. A woman of average build, modest in stature and gait, one the French would describe as “elle petitt”, resplendent in golden colour dress while the others were in the chosen “aso ebi” colours of white […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more”….Shakespeare in MACBETH. Peter is no more. Emmanuel Bodemeh, aka Peter, TELL’s Director of Production, was a gentle giant of graphics. He and […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow This is a Live Cat-and-Mouse Game (Encounter?) Between Artificial Intelligence and Natural Intelligence, as it were. Indeed… It was a battle of wits between me and meta AI, Sunday evening, as I sought the assistance of the ANJANNU IBERU (IWIN) behind the artificial […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Teacher, teach me something. What’s that? I want to know more about the Yoruba language. What do you want me to teach you again? I have already told you that Yoruba is a sweet, simple but complex language. Ehn…Teach me that “complex”. What […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Son of Ajanaku will always resemble Ajanaku. (The Son of Mr. Elephant will always take after Mr. Elephant). Seun Kuti, 43, is a stormy petrel, gadfly, like his father, Fela. And of all Fela’s children he is the “enfant terrible” chip off […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow He was the youngest of them all at Newswatch. While Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu and Dan Agbese were born in the 1940s, Yakubu Mohammed, aka, Yak, was a “child” of the 1950s and a flag bearer, of sorts, for the “Senior Citizens” especially […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Attack on IS and Boko Haram Terrorists in Zamfara and Sokoto on Christmas Day. Have you heard the news? What news? That Trump made good his boastful promise to attack religious extremists and terrorists in Nigeria on Christmas Day? Iro ni. Na […] More
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