Category: My People
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Edgar, you can never be a billionaire with theatre
As the news that we are completely sold out in Asaba hit me this morning, the above statement made to me by my brother, Ken Etete, resonated with me. He had looked at me very intently after transferring a bumper amount for one of my plays and said those magical words. I already knew it,…
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Jalo Waziri, Tony Ibeziakor – when Irokos’ move
Don’t even know which feeling should guide this write-up Don’t even know if I should be excited or cover myself in black tar as I attempt to write this farewell to two of the most cerebral men that have walked through Customs street, Lagos Customs Street houses the core of the mega trillion Naira valued…
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My encounter with the Asagba of Asaba
It was Prof Ahmed Yerima who said he wanted to tell this story – the story of the event of 1967 I wanted another story, but when he sent me the synopsis, I was hooked I called my egbon, Ogbueshi Chike Ogeah , and said, This is what I am hearing and he said,” Yes,”…
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That Abbey Mortgage Bank soiree
That Bolaji Adewumi is a highly brilliant finance operative is no longer in doubt, with what he has done with the iconic Abbey Mortgage Bank Plc Ever since he joined a group of young next-generation business leaders, including the superbly strategic Nonso Okpala, to take over the then-ailing Abbey, the historic mortgage Institution has been…
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Tunde Ayeni – time to rise up
One thing that I have learnt very early in this man and woman matter is to be able to stand and take up any challenges that come after tasting the juice You see, once those thighs have been parted and you have inserted, it is then that you will know the true meaning of being…
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Michael Collins Ajereh – Don Jazzy*
“It’s Don Jazzy again!” — once you hear that phrase in a song, you are almost guaranteed that the track will be a hit. The man is our own Quincy Jones, that legendary music producer who crafted Michael Jackson’s monstrous Off the Wall and the earth-shaking Thriller albums. Don Jazzy has delivered to Nigeria the…
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In ‘Furious Country,’ Characters Are Trapped in Terror
I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags.
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An exciting, hilarious, extremely outlandish, oftentimes touching
A moderate incline runs towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we clattered. Once the lightning had begun.
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How Ordinary People Can Help Their Country
By the light of the now brilliant moons I saw that he was but a shadow of his former self, and as he turned from my caress and commenced greedily.