In an atmosphere of conviviality, camaraderie and love, family, friends, colleagues and teeming admirers, pundits, critics, and cynics turned out in their numbers to celebrate a trailblazer, a rock solid woman, Mrs Callista Azogu. The celebration started with a well attended Mass at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Maitama Abuja with six Reverend Fathers to mark the 60th birthday and …

When you come in contact with Nyaknno Osso, be prepared to learn. Not because he is a professional teacher, much less an overbearing one. Rather, it is because the man has voracious appetite for learning and articulation himself. To his credit as a serial pioneer of incredible credentials, he adds the temperament of an unapologetically meticulous editor. His ideas and …

I was struck by the peculiarity of his name tag on our premiere meeting. The first time I saw such a striking configuration was when I encountered the configuration, PUN OMERUO on the chest of a former military administrator of Kogi State, who I would later serve as Chief Press Secretary. As a student of Literature, I was amazed that …

By Dr Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide joins the entire Igbo both at home and in the Diaspora in celebrating an accomplished erudite reflective scholar, renowned author, seasoned diplomat, resourceful administrator, cultural leviathan, political submarine, pathfinder and an Igbo Titan of incredible global reckoning, His Excellency, Ambassador (Prof.) George Obiozor (Ugwumba), the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide …

Tribute to my twin brother from another mother, AIG Don Awunah Now and finally, I have to do the unimaginable. It has been days of agonising reflections since that night, that hour when I received the most dreadful news in my life, the news that you’ve taken flight. You’ve taken the final flight that has broken the bond of 44 years …

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The news here is not that consummate actor Bob-Manuel Udokwu has just been appointed the Special Adviser on Entertainment, Leisure and Tourism by Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo. Fact is, a day before the announcement of the august appointment, the personable actor had gathered friends and family together at Mr. Smith rendezvous in Awka, …

By Louis Odion “Yes, next?” “Sir, the next person on the list”, continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House testily “is the widow you met some time ago while on project inspection and you said we should include her name among those to be paid monthly from the money you gave us to maintain the house …

It was four days to his 57th birthday. It’s exactly five years ago on Sunday, 5th March 2017, that Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, one of Nigeria’s finest, most innovative and most resourceful journalists of recent time, died in continually befuddling circumstances. He had attended the 80th birthday celebration of his erstwhile benefactor and boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s pioneer President in the current …