Ayo Jaiyesimi is the writer of Mad King of Ijudiya, a stage play expected to flag off at the Muson Centre, Lagos next week. In this interview with Vanguard, the playwright shares her experience about how she  realised this seemingly theatrical accomplishment. You are staging a play this season, what is this about and where […]

It is well-known to New Testament scholars that questions concerning the historical existence of the person named Jesus of Nazareth are far from settled. Still Christian religious apologists, from the Pope to pastors of Pentecostal churches, behave as if the gospels’ are true beyond reasonable doubt. A few Christian denominations do not celebrate the supposed birthday of Jesus on 25th of December.

We believe in the use of our culture to address issues that have left us divided, and because our prosperity as individuals and country lies in the values that we inculcate in our children, issues relating to the appreciation and respect for our cultural diversity and other values such as ethnic and religious tolerance are best inculcated in children when they are young”.

Today, the solitude in me remembers Ogbonna Amadi and Sylva Eleanya, two former colleagues here in the Vanguard, whose deaths this passing year robbed the journalism profession in Nigeria of two of its most talented reporters and technicians of the newscraft. I had arrived the Vanguard to be Features Editor in January 1994 bristling with redesign ideas for the features at the Vanguard.

My journalism role model, Nduka Irabor, a man of many parts, has once again come to the front bunner of football after six years since he attempted to help right the wrongs surrounding the game in our dear country.