By Godknows Igali In a great show of what is referred to in Latin as ‘Opus Laudatio’, – preeminent praisework, the Nigerian nation gathered in Yenagoa on Saturday August 26, 2023, to celebrate one of the country’s living legends, Professor Emeritus Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa. Earlier, on April 14, 2023, this historian of lauded value and…
By Godknows Boladei Igali Born a princess of Ebirraland (one of the ethnic groups in Nigeria’s middle-belt), Ambassador Judith Sefi Atta, unarguably mother of the Nigerian bureaucratic class, in dignified silence, turned 90 on July 14, 2023. A pioneer female graduate from what was once Nigeria’s Northern Province, a teacher, educationist, diplomat, and administrator, her…
By: Godknows Igali On the day of its father’s funeral, the famous bird, the Woodpecker, had a boil on the foreskin of its beak and therefore could not carve its choicest drum to celebrate. Indeed, there are certain moments when the ink of the wordsmith dries up, and the stylus is unable to scribble the…
By Godknows Boladei Igali In the world view of the Ijaw people, who occupy Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline, the largest of whales never die. When the cycle of life eclipses, the master behemoth simply migrates to the deepest recesses of the oceans never to be seen again. So is the parallel story of a once towering,…
