Yesterday, the author narrated how Babangida offered banking license to Ibru and how the bank was established.

Last Saturday, March 22, 2025, was the 79th birthday of Dr. (Mrs.) Cecilia Ibru, Nigeria’s first female bank MD/CEO. To mark the birthday, she released two books, one titled “Cecilia: The autobiography of Cecilia Ibru” and the other, a memoir,

A Review of Promise and Providence by GOS Ekhaguere

Aminat Shiyanbade’s Violets and Dust began with a young writer, who purchased a mini cabin to escape the distractions of life – and focus on writing his book. Unknown to him, the house was haunted by the ghost of a child, who died sixty years ago, killed by the hands of her father, who not […]

A Review of ‘A Taste of Success’

Beauty is adire! Adire is Africa! Africa is ‘A Constellation of Cravings’! ‘A Constellation of Cravings is beauty! Born in Lagos, Nigeria and resides in England, Still, Oluwaseun’s concern for his Father Land is touching. He mixes grandeur in beautiful simplicity which this review will select.

The literary genius and social critic, Mark Anthony Nze always finds a way to expose the rot that bedevils most countries of the world, especially those in Africa through his conscious and well-crafted contributions to the literary world.

‘Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

SAGE OF GROWTH…REFLECTIONS OF A POLICY ECONOMIST first published in 2016 and reprinted in 2020 is a 208 pages book written to meet the yearnings and aspirations of those who desire to equip themselves with useful information ranging from economy, socio-economy, civil society, politics, etc, by Taiwo Francis Akerele, a trained banker with World Bank experience and a reliable shoulder of the Adams Oshiomhole-led Edo State Economic Team.

Advertising. Politics. Communication. Creativity. Intrigue. Electoral chaos. Do these concepts have points of convergence? If Yes, Where? How? Why? This size-able seminal work by Sam-Loco Smith ventures into a territory that is at once dear and loathsome to people the world over – with accentuated emphasis on Nigeria, one must add.

Very few women break through the glass ceiling in their careers. This is not necessarily because women are not hard working; it’s just that no matter how much they try, the barriers and limitations to their advancements seem to be stronger than their efforts.

I am a Roman Catholic, 82 years old and was married to my dear wife, Helen, for 55 years and 9 months before she passed on, on 30thMarch 2018. I was 24 and a fresh graduate from the University College, Ibadan, when I first met my wife, and we were married six months later on June 30, 1962. My wife, née, Helen Anurukem, only 19, had just finished her secondary education at Cornelia Connelly College, Uyo, and after two days of meeting me would write: ‘I had made up my mind. I knew that I would marry this man.’

Pat Utomi told sordid tales about the weird and fetish lifestyles of our politicians and how those lifestyles negatively affect our own lives. Today, he takes to the cleaners religious leaders and institutions, intellectuals, business communities, student bodies, and young people who stand aside and look and do nothing while criminals in the cloak of politicians have field days.

Chapter One of the book captivatingly begins with the author’s narrative of “Buhari and His Friend’s Bicycle”.

His thick frame had shrunken over time. He shook his legs repeatedly, but it was not with the intensity of the former days.