While living through my own childhood — listening to stories the elders told, having herbalists treat my glaucoma — I was aware that it would make a magnificent book. I began reading early and always had a sense of life as something that would be read. This does not mean that The Famished Road, my third novel, which won the Booker Prize in 1991, was autobiographical; only that the strange realities of life seemed already to belong to the magical world of reading.

By JVINN Okafor (Managing Editor/Head of Business Desk)

Ace metropolitan banker and billionaire founder of the First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Otunba Subomi Balogun, is dead.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), on Sunday, expressed condolence to one of its member and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Greenbarge Reporters Online, Alhaji Yusuf Ozi Usman, who lost his aged mother, Hajia Aishatu Onwaaza Usman, at the weekend.

By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter, in Abuja)

The Buhari Media Organisation has applauded the President, Muhammadu Buhari, for approving the take-off of the Oguta Lake dredging project which is aimed at channelling the waterway to the Atlantic Ocean.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent warm greetings to the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Olufunmileyi Owasanoye, SAN, on his 60th birthday on Monday, May 15, 2023.

Nigerian singer, Peter Okoye of P-Square has apologised to the Nigeria Police on behalf of his colleague in the music industry, Seun Kuti, who had a conflict with a police officer on Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos.

• * Says He Embodies The Hope, Aspiration Of Osun State People

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congratulates the Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, as he marks his 63rd birthday today, Saturday, May 13, 2023, describing him as a good-natured leader with a heart for the people.

By Cecilia Ogezi

A Northern Nigerian woman, Fatima Sanda Usara, has launched a new book titled 'Nadama', a cancer prevention research work aimed at reducing the prevalence of cervical cancer in Nigeria especially in northern Nigeria where the scourge is high.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Billionaire businessmen, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Mr. Femi Otedola will top the list of private sector leaders who are expected to join state governors, ministers and other eminent personalities at the public presentation of a book: 101 Nigerian Women of Impact, authored by a member of the Presidential Transition Committee, Barrister Zainab Marwa.

• * Declares Oguta, Ohaji/Egbema Oil, Gas Free Trade Zone

By Gloria Acholonu (Imo State Correspondent, in Oguta)

It was joy over-filled for the people of Oguta Ameshi Community in Orlu Senatorial Zone, Imo state, South East, Nigeria, as President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, flagged-off the Hydrographic Survey and dredging of the popular Oguta Lake and the Sea-route through Orashi River-Degema to the Atlantic Ocean.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Former Lagos State Governor and the Chairman of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brigadier General Muhammadu Buba Marwa (Rtd) on Friday eulogized Governor Ademola Adeleke for so far performing well since he assumed office as Governor of Osun state.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

President Muhammadu Buhari, at the weekend, congratulated the Osun State governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on his 63rd birthday today, Saturday, May 13, 2023.