Mazi Nwonwu's blog

Photo credit: Mazi Nwonwu Years ago, a Dana aircraft travelling from Abuja to Lagos ploughed into a two-storey building in the Iju area o...

Photo: Linda Ikeji's blog As sad as the whole Linda Ikeji saga is, and I admit it is sad on all fronts, we need to look beyond the ...

English: January 15, 1938. Mt. Kilimanjaro: The snow-capped summit containing the nearly perfect crater is flanked by deep furrows of lava...

Most people who use the danfo or any other yellow bus to commute through the mad dash that is the average Lagos route are not unaware ...

I encountered rape very early in life. I was perhaps 14 when a random visit to the home of a local ruffian presented me with my firs...

It is a hot day. Another of those days that traffic stretches as far as the eyes can see causing people in cars to share something o...

In the last decade, since the Plantation Boys and Remedies before them began a revival of Nigerian music’s fortunes, Naija music has e...

This is ending as a very good year for me as a writer. First off, I finally got a publisher to take interest in my collection of short s...

I want to be numb, but my soul cries too loud for me to ignore. I am supposed to have grown accustomed to pain, but things happen that...

“Shege Inyamirin, arne kawai!” the man screamed at me as I sprawled on the red earth, my 20 litre water container, which a few moments a...

My earliest memories were of landscapes, or put in a better perspective, hillscapes : beautiful scenery of hills and valleys; the fre...

Once again, like uncountable times in the past, the north is in the throes of ethno-religious crisis. As usual, the security agencies ar...

As has become customary, the murderous Islamist group, Boko Haram , attacked three churches in Kaduna state on Sunday, leaving death and ...

The fuel subsidy protests have come and gone. The dead have probably been buried, with only the pain, deeply etched on the heart of mothers...

The National Executive Councils of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) took place today, Wednesday ...

As we trudge the streets, we bear this in mind. They do not feel our pain!!!