Novelist

FILE PHOTO: Ugandan author of "Greedy Barbarian" Kakwenza Rukirabashaija reads the book at his home in Iganga district in Eastern Uganda May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa//File Photo/File Photo

Ugandan author critical of President Museveni flees country – lawyer

February 9, 2022

Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari

Femi Adesina: Nigeria needs peacemakers, not spoilers

January 15, 2022

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

October 7, 2021

The Oluwo of Iwo land in Osun State, Abdulrasheed Akanbi, on Saturday, urged the federal government to initiate laws that would ensure capital punishment for convicted corrupt officials.

Osun monarch: Nigeria needs capital punishment for corrupt officials

August 1, 2021

Jiti Ogunye, lawyer and public affairs analyst, writes from Lagos

The truth about flight in the face of political persecution and state ruthlessness

July 25, 2021

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Okey Ndibe tasks Nigerian electorate on political choices

January 21, 2021

Award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie, has revealed that she was not born with the name, Chimamanda.

Nigerian author: My parents did not name me Chimamanda

January 4, 2021

Chimamanda Adichie: Catholic churches in Nigeria all about money, fundraising

January 2, 2021

John le Carré (David Cornwell) in 2017. He “will be remembered as perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain,” the novelist Ian McEwan said. Tom Jamieson for The New York Times

British spy thriller author John Le Carre passes on at 89

December 14, 2020

TIME named Nigerian physician Tunji Funsho to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Nigerian doctor named one of TIME’s Most Influential People in the world

September 23, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech to honor Japan’s architect Arata Isozaki at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 24, 2019. Isozaki is the laureate of the 2019 Pritzker architecture prize.-br --Francois Mori - POOL - AP - AFP

France president under pressure to back EU efforts to ban Hezbollah

September 1, 2020

A police officer checks a vehicle ahead of planned anti-government protests during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe, July 31, 2020. REUTERS-Philimon Bulawayo

Security forces head off anti-government protests in Zimbabwe

August 1, 2020

Police in Zimbabwe on Friday arrested internationally-acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga as they enforced a ban on protests coinciding with the anniversary of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's election.

Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga arrested during banned protests

July 31, 2020

Nadine Dorries with Boris Johnson. She felt unwell on Friday but went on to hold a surgery for 50 constituents the next day. ANDREW PARSONS-I-IMAGES PICTURE AGENCY

Coronavirus: British minister who visited prime minister tests positive

March 11, 2020

First generation Nigerian novelist and traditional ruler of Ndikelionwu community in Orumba, Anambra State, Eze Chukwuemeka Ike, (the Ikelionwu IX) has died, aged 89.

Nigerian novelist Chukwuemeka Ike passes on at 89

January 10, 2020