An Enugu-based pastor, Gabriel Obiano (Gabriel Ooc), has emerged winner of 2019 Monster Hit Story Contest. The competition is an initiative of Ororo Pattaya 20km and David Jones, who is known for his Anti-Drug Advocacy among Nigerian Youths. The contest, which ran on Instagram and Facebook between April and May, was designed for Nigerian youths…

Help! Help! Help!” the pregnant young lady screamed at the top of her voice as her handbag was forcefully snatched from her arm. In spite of her condition, she ran effortlessly after the fleeing thief, who had manoeuvered, his motorcycle deftly and vanished out of sight. “Help! Ole! Thief!” the pregnant woman continued to scream…

Miss Zaya and Mr. Hammersmith in A Soldier’s Story: Return from the Dead, which is set to premiere at The Genesis Deluxe Cinema, Palms Shopping Mall, Oniru, Lekki on December 6, 2018. Produced by Martin Gbados, the action movie is written and directed by Frankie Ogar. Set in two West African countries, Nigeria and a…

People around me have supported me in a way that I don’t struggle to balance things, they just fall in place.   “Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” - Stevie Wonder   Music is an integral part of the Nigerian culture and there is a sense of identity and…

The author of Beast of No Nation, opens up on the business of storytelling They say men can't multitask but Uzodinma Iweala is a writer, entrepreneur, medical doctor, publisher and art curator of sorts - a quintessential polymath. When I meet him at his offices of his business magazine Ventures Africa, he is prepping for…

LATE Mrs. Grace Eziaku̞ Ogbulogo was born to the royal family (Ezindinze) of Ndu̞kwe Okenchi Agadangwo of Amaedo, Eziama Achara Imeobi, Uturu in 1937, ten years before the landmark event of the 1947 eclipse of the sun. Her mother, U̞lo̞o̞maU̞gu̞ru̞ belonged to the Uhu Ukwu (the great compound) lineage of Owere Akpu̞kpa Uturu. Though happily married to Ndukwe, Ulooma was better known with her maiden name. There was even a children’s version of her name, Mmo̞o̞ma which eventually overshadowed her original name-U̞lo̞o̞ma, Janet Ndukwe.