Category: TRIBUTES
For My Grandmother: A Tribute of Thanksgiving
At the age of 90, Mama didn’t die young. Yet, the news of her death disorientated me and hurt me more than I can articulate in words. Her passage represented the foreclosure of the fulfillment of a personal wish: I had always prayed, at least, for my first child to experience as great grandmother the […]
It’s Crime Against Humanity, Not #Dasukigate
The confessional of Sambo Dasuki and his gang has proved that their plunder of the monies earmarked for arming Nigerian troops against Boko Haram, the most deadly terror group in the world, caused the slaughter of 20,000 Nigerians. But the Nigerian media flinches from calling the crime by its earned name: Crime against humanity! […]
Who Killed Alams?
The death of Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyesiegha didn’t come within the range of vision of any prognosticator. But as soon as news broke that it had happened, a spontaneous epidemic of inquest broke out too. It seemed that a segment of his kinsmen, friends and allies, had been primed to make an instant whodunit hay […]
Oluchi and Her Cannibal Country
Tomorrow, Friday, 18th September 2005, a needless burial will take place in Aku, Enugu State. Oluchi Anekwe will be lowered into the bowels of a moist, red earth. The barely 22 year old, first-class bound 300-level student of University of Lagos, electrocuted when a loosely hanging high tension wire fell on her in her campus, […]
THE COLOURS OF MICHAEL BROWN AND TWENTY NAIRA…
As one sits through the half hour bulletin and watches the TV screen renew itself with images of Death raking in a bumper harvest across the terrain – ISIS militants upgrading savagery with the playful slitting of throats of people who worship differently in Iraq and Syria ; the symbiotic war of attrition between Israel […]
DIMGBA IGWE, MY COUSIN AND OTHERS
Dimgba Igwe, a rock star of Nigerian tabloid journalism and one of the nation’s finest columnists, set forth on a routine jogging exercise in his Lagos neighbourhood three Saturday mornings ago. And he died. A driver ran over the running Dimgba and accelerated away from his fallen bleeding victim. An innocent fitness work-out, the arms […]