WHEN last week I received an invitation to attend a graduation ceremony at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos, I couldn’t really figure out what sort of graduation would be taking place inside the prison, more so, as the invitation did not...

YEAR on year the country rolls out drums to celebrate its liberation from the throes of NITEL’s inefficient services, with news editors jostling to describe the glorious advent of mobile telecommunications services in Nigeria, aka GSM phone...

FINALLY, the story ends. The story teller has gone to sleep. He has gone with his stories – a bagful. But then another story begins. It is telling the story according to the storyteller. It is the story of Chinualumogu Achebe and his stories. It...

SOME forty years ago, the inimitable musician and Afro beat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, went into the studio and came out with one of the evergreen numbers titled – Authority Stealing – of which I am borrowing as part of the title of this...