Books
Jalaa writers showcase novel worlds
Writers of the Jalaa Collective, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Odili Ujubuonu, and Jude Dibia read ...
Omatseye: Back with a bang
Sam Omatseye has something good cooking. Barely a year after he presented two ...
Kiagbodo
Poet and playwright J.P. Clark’s falling-out with his would-be official biographer, Adewale Maja-Pearce, is chronicled in the latter’s new book, ‘A Peculiar Tragedy’. We begin ...
Birthday celebrations for Femi Osofisan
The 65th birthday of renowned playwright, Femi Osofisan, will be marked with ...
Irele’s labyrinths of textual meaning
Though not a contest, scholars struggled to outdo one another on Thursday, ...
Chioma Okereke’s Bitter Leaf
After a build-up of many months including a shortlisting for the Commonwealth ...
Positioning children as the future
Growth, change and development were the key words of the sixth Macmillan ...
Walks with Julius: Teju Cole’s ‘Open City’
Teju Cole’s enigmatic new book ‘Open City’ is truly unusual. Imagine a ...
EMAIL FROM AMERICA: On Teju Cole’s ‘Debut Novel’
Teju Cole has just written ‘Open City’, a brainy book that is ...
My relationship with grammar
I love grammar. I hate grammar. My relationship with grammar is like my love-hate relationship with Lagos. I love it - the people, ... Full story
Macmillan holds youth literary day
The sixth edition of Macmillan's Youth Literary Day will hold on Tuesday, May 31 at the Shell Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos. The event ... Full story
Ndidi Enenmor :‘I have no regrets being a writer’
“I simply love writing, especially for children. I derive a lot of pleasure from it,” begins Ndidi Enenmor. “It is so easy for ... Full story
‘People buy books but don’t read them’
The call for improvement in the reading culture of Nigerians has again ...
Yemi Sanusi: medical writer
Writing has always been a part of Yemi Sanusi, a medical doctor and writer. She cultivated the habit early in life when she wrote essays ...
Macmillan holds youth literary day
The sixth edition of Macmillan's Youth Literary Day will hold on ...
Sola Alamutu restores the rainforest
Sola Alamutu is the brain behind Children and the Environment (CATE), an organisation that is helping to create awareness in children about the importance of ...
Twinkle, twinkle, bright stars
When the United Nations brought leaders from all over the world to New York, to its Millenniums Summit in September 2000, the socio-economic problems of ...
T.B. Joshua: "I Would Have Halted President Mills' Death If..."
Founder and General Overseer of the Synagogue Church, Prophet T.B. Joshua says in an unusual manner, God did not reveal the death of Ghana’s President, ... Full story
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Flash: Today’s Robust Football Gists In One Swoop!
18 May Posted May 18, 2013 by newsbytesnow in Sports. Tagged: FA, Football, League, sports, Transfers. Leave a Comment AC Milan are expecting Robinho to remain at the club despite ...
A Must-Read! Boko Haram & The Emergency Rule: What Many Do Not Know By Ahmadu Jirgi
Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau Nothing has changed for the better since June last year when the first emergency rule in some parts ...
Mislead, Mistrust, Misinform, Misunderstanding -Why Most Nigerians Do Not Trust President Jonathan And His Administration By Charles Omole
As the Cuban missile crisis raged in October 1962; the US president sat in the White House and called the leaders of the key nations ...
N58.9 Trillion Oil Deal: HEDA Urges Human Rights Commission to Investigate Petroleum Minister Alison-Madueke and Shell Petroleum
caption: Diezani Allison-Madueke ...
Delta Council Chairman In Physical Brawl With Scribe In Hotel Over N73 Million Largesse
By SaharaReporters, New York The transition committee chairman of Ughelli ...
Nigeria Police "Repel" Hoodlums Attack In Daura, Katsina State
By SaharaReporters, New York There are conflicting reports emanating from ...
Of State Of Emergency And Criticisms By Chiechefulam Ikebuiro
The recent declaration of state of emergency by the President Goodluck-led government on Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states as far as I am concerned is ...
Why Former IGP Mike Okiro Is Unfit To Chair Police Service Commission-NOPRIN
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Nigerian Pastor Entices New Members With N5,000 Cash
That church ministries in Nigeria is a serious business is not in doubt. It’s amazingly shocking to know that men of God have now channeled ...