‘My dad didn’t want me to go into music’
Abdullahi Isma’il, popularly known as B’meri Aboki, has in recent times been gaining grounds in the Nigerian entertainment industry. The Kano-born 24-
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Dafinone: Celebrating a figure head
He had set out early in life as a head for and, later, of an exceptional family of figures. In 1943, in the Cambridge School Certificate Examination t
‘Why death of accident victim isn’t our hospital’s fault’
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) at Idi Araba, Lagos, was established in 1962 to offer tertiary health services and engage in teaching an
The train to Moscow
I was a long way from home and after a few days watching soccer and sightseeing in Saint Petersburg, I would be heading north by train to the Russian
Kampala of the Seven Hills
Poetry first drew me towards Kampala four years ago when my poem ‘Laruge’ was nominated for the BabishaiNiwe African Poetry Prize. I was invited for t