I HAD just finished a series on the issue of faith and the kingdom of Heaven. The issues of faith and that of the kingdom of heaven have always been seen as the issues of religion. My aim of treating those topics as you might had been aware was to...

CONSIDER this scenario – the landlord made a fifty per cent increase of the house rent; electricity supply to the house has been disconnected for three months, out of four children, two are out of school because the Okoguns cannot afford the...

HUMAN experience would insist that certain factors, or a combination of a number of factors are responsible for sickness. These include heredity, inexplicable mutation of the genes, exposure to harmful material substances, age, accident...

IN  the last article, I directed attention to a particular statement of Jesus to drive home the practical import of the kingdom of heaven in the life of man in which He said man ought not to worry about his mundane needs but that he should...

In Temptation, Kardashian Plays Shallow

YOU know the girl who plays the dumb, shallow character in Temptation, the new film by Tyler Perry? It’s Kim Kardashian. Of the six main characters in this emotional story of far- fetched love and searing...

FOR they too countersued for giving the rights to NTA for the miniseries production of Things Fall Apart, with an all-star cast that includes Pete Edochie as Okonkwo, and the NTA miniseries icon, Peter Igho as the Supervising...

I HAVE read almost every encomium on Prof. Chinua Achebe, and I don’t think it can ever be enough to add another one. In fact, I feel I must add this one because none has mentioned the man’s desire to shoot his works in film, which was totally...

• Africa Needs To Get Its Story Straight• It’s Frustrating That Beloved Home, Nigeria, Doesn’t Use Its Talents• In Things Fall Apart, I wanted English And Igbo To Hold A Conversation• What My Ibadan Professor Told Me About My Budding...

Iron Man Boxes Amoda To A Corner

 

IN its first commentary on the American movie series, Iron Man exactly three years ago (ARTSVILLE, MAY 30, 2010), this column argued that the producers owed copyright fees to Olu Amoda, the Nigerian metal...

NGUGI wa Thiong’o is a renowned Kenyan writer. The author of popular works such as Weep Not Child, which is the first English novel in Kenya; The River Between; A Grain of Wheat; Petals of Blood; Devil on the Cross; Matigari; Wizard of the Crow...

HAD a Boeing MD-83, operated by Dana Air, not crashed at Iju-Ishaga, a Lagos suburb on June 3, 2012, the community could have remained largely unknown.

The tragedy claimed the lives of 153 passengers, including crewmembers and six...

THEY wear military fatigues and display corresponding Identity Cards. They look like it, speak like it and act like it. But they are mere impersonators.

Such appearances have prompted Rivers State communities –Igwuruta in Ikwere Local...

MRS Eunice Abbey-Kalio, widow of Commodore Datoru Abbey-Kalio, victim of the air disaster, received many sympathisers. Some of these were: Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi (represented by his deputy, Tele Ikuru) and the state’s...

RESIDENTS of Ikorodu, Parafa, Maya, Imota, Isiu and Agbowa might be experiencing a nightmare.

Their only means of linking Ijebu-Ode, Lagos, or Epe is the Ikorodu-Ijebu-Ode road. But since June 2011, sections of the road have continued to prove...