In a not so surprising announcement - going by the Nobel Academy’s notoriety for secrecy - this year’s Nobel Literature Prize has gone to Frenchman Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Clezio who in 1994 was shown a survey conducted by the French...

Here is an article on the favourites for this year’s prestigious prize for literature at the Nobel Academy. The pros and cons of each favourite and why there might actually be surprises.

Novelist, Teacher and Essayist, Chinua Achebe has won almost all international honours for writing. Exaggeration or not, he is one of Africa’s best known storytellers whether in novel or in short stories. Even in radio interviews, Chinua Achebe...

The past few days got me thinking about privacy on the internet. No doubt it is one of the main issues in its functionality and relevance. A fellow Nigerian Blogger complained about impersonation. An old friend had to leave Facebook after a few months...

In Nigeria, I mean. A misleading report by a leading private media outfit has led to its closure by members of the State Security Service, and a revocation of its licence by the National Communications Commision, the media regulating outfit in the...

The Olympic games for the disabled going on in Beijing, China - called the Paralympics - came to a very colourful end on Wednesday with host country China leading still at the medals table. The host country finished with a total of 211 medals followed...

Since this week began, militants in the Oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria have started blowing up oil installations in the region in a campaign tagged the “Oil War”. In an email made available to media housed recently, the militia...

On Monday September 2008 when German journalist, author and activist was presenting his first book/travelogue about African Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka in Ibadan, he was steered again to the supposed rivalry between pioneer African novelist Chinua...

Before I am accused of waking up an old news, le me say that one of the pluses of Gerd Meuer’s new book on our Nobel Prize winner is its needful looking back at old Nigeria and how past events and issues shaped our present. And there is no way to...

As a Nigerian, I am not expected to speak Swahili. It is too far removed even in geography to be remotely considered needful. So whenever I sit in the cybercafé browsing for a Swahili dictionary, or conversing in my smattering Swahili phrases on an...