The recent Grammy award conferred on singer and rapper Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has once again proven the authentic Nigerian youth power. Coming amidst perceived retrogression and hopelessness in Nigeria, the award testifies to the quality of the true Nigerian youth who has refused to be hoodwinked by the chaos and confusion that […]
Continue Reading
Dike Chukwumerije is a famed poet and writer who uses the stage to present his art in spoken words. Being one of Nigeria’s prolific performance poets, his public remarks and poems have inspired discussions about nationalism and identity across the nation. He speaks with Guardian Life about life and work. Kindly tell us about yourself […]
Continue Reading
She represents perseverance, determination, passion, dedication, tenacity, and she is a lot of women building their lives brick after brick after each storm. She is the untiring and virtuous entrepreneur, Iheuwa Sandra Ifeoma, better known as Sandra Iheuwa. One noticeable and common trait with human beings is that they are so forgetful. Life has communicated […]
Continue Reading
Veteran journalist and Co-founder of Tell Magazine, Nosa Igiebor, speaks to Alexander Okere about his torturous career during the military era, including his arrest and detention by brutish regimes and how it affected his family. You clocked 70 December last year and many consider that a milestone, considering the risks you faced during the military […]
Continue Reading
Award winner, South South Deputy Bureau Chief of The Guardian, Anietie Akpan (right); Rasheed Zubair, AIT correspondent; Cross River State NUJ Chairman, Nsa Gill, and the Principal Counsel, BRCI and representative of Safe Child African, James Ibor, during the presentation of Excellence Award to Akpan at NUJ Press Centre, Calabar. The Guardian Newspaper South South […]
Continue Reading
Olusunle, Osundare and Nyitse By Tunde Olusunle Typical of the extremely organised personality that he is, the multiple award-winning poet, Niyi Osundare, had already “served notice” of his imminent visit to Nigeria, weeks before he came. He had been invited by the organisers of the “Nigerian National Order of Merit,” (NNOM), to deliver a lecture […]
Continue Reading
SAUDI Arabia may bend its laws which disallow non-married couples to co-habit for Al-Nassr’s new player, Cristiano Ronaldo. Reports revealed that Ronaldo and his partner, Georgina Rodriguez will be permitted to live together without punishment. Ronaldo met Rodriguez in 2016 while plying his trade with Spanish giants, Real Madrid and they have lived together as […]
Continue Reading
By Tony Afejuku That Pele, the World’s best player ever, is dead is no longer news. That this Brazilian with Nigerian blood that ran in his body has been buried on Tuesday, January 3, 2013 in a ceremony that was superbly attended by a huge crowd that was clearly more than a hugely huge crowd […]
Continue Reading
By Banji Ojewale ‘King’ Pele, the genius, won three world Cup titles for Brazil When boxer Muhammed Ali passed on in 2016, George Foreman, one of the sport’s fiercest demolition experts, was approached by CBS This Morning crew in the United States of America to speak on his old ring foe. Knocked out by Ali […]
Continue Reading
Even as he was laid to rest yesterday, Pele, real name Edson Arantes do Nascimento, will remain indelible in the record of world football history, as a person who came, saw and conquered. Naming him as ‘King’ Pele is not a mistake, for what Pele represented as a football legend with unparallel achievements, dexterity and […]
Continue Reading
