Bilkisu Abubakar is one Northern Nigeria female writer, who has employed the tool of creative writing in engaging the discourse of religion, gender and polygamy in the predominantly Islamic North. In this conversation with United States of Americas based literary scholar and writer, Unoma Azuah, how she has successfully done this with her two novels :To Live Again and The Woman in Me.

Centre for Human Development (CHD), organizers of a writing competition to mark Ford Foundation’s 50 years existence in Nigeria with the theme: Nigerian Women: Yesterday, today and tomorrow, had their reasons when they invited University of Lagos lecturer and award-winning author, Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, as the Chairperson for the award ceremony.

Political office holders in Nigeria are fond of travelling abroad. When it gets to the extreme with some of them, the media say they are junketing around the world. What provokes the majority of the people is not the amount of money usually expended on the trips. They are particularly angry that the leaders do not care to replicate some of the good things they see and enjoy abroad when they return home.

SENIOR Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, has accused the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, of misleading and misinforming Nigerian public on the planned privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

The absence of the politicians is attributable to the struggle for governorship which has divided the entire Yewa into two camps.