Book Review: AKPANDEM JAMES’ Memories of Yesteryears: Nostalgic Reminiscences
BY SAM AKPE This book is sure going to tickle you a little. You will laugh and scream and wonder as you turn each page. Then…
Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation
BOOK REVIEW: Anietie Usen’s AUDACIOUS JOURNALISM
By Sam Akpe The book is big – a little over 700 pages. But it’s in no way scary. If you love excellent, descriptive, and thrilling…
Our Ray, Hooray
By Ndaeyo Uko The Chairman looked at the name on the visitor’s form and shrugged. The name did not ring bell; it gave a tiny and…
BOOK REVIEW: Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines
A Review of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s book by Sam Akpe Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines practically confirms what we had always known; that corruption…
TELLING IT AS IT IS: A MUST READ AUTOBIOGRAPHY REVIEWED BY ACE COLUMNIST – DARE BABARINSA
Book Review By Dare Babarinsa For almost seven decades, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has been part of the Nigerian story. In his enthralling autobiography, Telling It As…
The Legacy Of A Tenacious Biographer
by FEMI ADESINA At the launch of “Newswatch Who’s Who In Nigeria” in 1990, Ray Ekpu, erstwhile editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine described him as “the two-minute…
ABIOLA, JUNE 12 AND THE PASCHAL QUESTION A personal perspective of The Resistance
On July 7, 1998, they brought Chief Moshood Abiola home in a body bag. That was not what we expected, but that was what we got.…
Nigeria’s first online biographical work debuts
For the first time in Nigeria, an online biographical databank has been established to chronicle the work of scholars, researchers, government officials, historians, diplomats and top…
Renowned Librarian, NYAKNNO OSSO, Steps Out With BLERF’S Who Is Who In Nigeria.
One of Nigeria’s most celebrated Librarians, Nyaknno Osso, a former Special Assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo, and the brain behind the highly acclaimed and award-winning Newswatch Who…
An Insight into Nigeria’s Maiden Biographical Encyclopedia
Olawale Ajimotokan reports on the maiden ‘Who’s Who in Nigeria’, the first online biographical encyclopedia on great Nigerians, spanning over a century of the country’s existence…