The popular adage which says that “failure is an orphan while success has many brothers, sisters and relations” was brought to the fore last week when the management of one of Nigeria’s leading arts and culture home, Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos, rolled out drums of celebration for its 10 years of existence.

THE Nigerian union of musicians, NUM, the foremost body representing musicians in Nigeria has joined millions of Nigerians to pay tribute to one of the greatest highlife music legend Victor Abimbola Olaiya who died at the age of 89.

A caretaker committee has been set up by members of the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, Lagos Chapter following the dissolution of Mr. Yemi Adebiyi led executive council on January 11.

After reading Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s homily for ‘Saint’ Michael Nnadi who was canonized by men of violence as Christ was canonized, I titled the book (yes, it is more than a book) “The victory of the dead over the killers”.

Nigeria’s foremost novelist, Chinua Achebe died on March 21, 2013, roughly a year after the release of his last book  There Was a Country:  A Personal History of Biafra.  Chinua Achebe’s historical account in that supposedly last novel has been variously interpreted depending on the background, mindset and interest of each interpreter. Despite the varying connotations given to his intended message, Achebe’s parting gift portrays the dominant conditions that pervade Nigeria’s sociopolitical landscape, especially the quagmire of corruption and insipid leadership which she has been inexorably trapped into since she attained independence.