Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Lagos

Contributor at MetroStar Nigeria

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

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Lets Go To Party, By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

4 days ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Charles Dickson

Fellow countrymen and women, lets take a trip to a party. Biko, I dont mean a party like the alphabet soup you have in Nigeria known as APC or PDP or RIP or whatever. Im taking you to a real party, a rollicking party where the ideology is alcoholism. The party is heavy, but the beer is even heavier.
Commissioning of First Phase of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway by President Tinubu, APromise Kept, By Owaikhena Osikhekha

4 days ago | thisage.com.ng | Charles Dickson |Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

On Saturday, May 31st, 2025, dignitaries from the government circle and captains of industry joined President Bola Tinubu to inaugurate section one of the first phase of the 750 kilometre Lagos – Calabar Coastal Highway. This section stretches from Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island to Eleko Village Areas in the Lekki Peninsula, Lagos. The highway project spans the coastal areas of Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River States.
Nigeria-No Turning Back: A Citizen’s Plea, By Prince Charles Dickson

5 days ago | thisage.com.ng | Charles Dickson |Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Prince Charles Dickson Ph.D.Dear President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,Permit me to proceed without the pleasantries of office…but do accept all the courtesies of the office.
NASS Lauds Wike’s ‘Exceptional Performance’ As FCT Minister

2 weeks ago | nigeria.direct.news | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

[Leadership - Nigeria] - 22/05/2025 The leadership and members of the National Assembly have lauded what the called exceptional performance of Mr. Nyesom Wike as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The lawmakers gave the commendation when Wike appeared before them to defend the N1.78 trillion FCT Statutory Budget (…) ...
INEC and JAMB: A Tale of Two Glitches, By Promise Adiele

2 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Promise Adiele |Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Charles Dickson

Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities presents two cities, Paris and London, with contrasting fortunes for French physician Alexander Manette. In the novel, Paris is a city where he serves 18 years in prison and in London, he enjoys freedom, living with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. Thus, Paris symbolizes confinement and estrangement while London signifies emancipation and self-discovery.
All That Jazz In The House Of Nigerian Power, By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

2 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Charles Dickson |Promise Adiele

Jazz is music but in some spheres jazz is juju. Jazz music with its African roots has the power of magic bordering on the occult that can turn normal human beings into jazzed up spirits. Its the convulsive power of jazz that helps one to understand the house of power in Nigeria and its ill-assorted occupants. Time was when Dodan Barracks in Lagos rocked with all that jazz as the seat of Nigerian power.
Nollywood to Premier New Film My Family and the Bandit in Lokoja

2 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

From Joseph Amedu, LokojaNollywood is set to premier a new movie ” my family and the bandit”in an historic cinematic event in Lokoja Kogi State. The Chief Executive Officer, Omedia Nigeria Limited Orits Gee disclosed this in a statement issued to journalists on Monday. He asserted that the highly anticipated premiere of “My Family and the Bandit will take place at the illustrious Wisdom Plaza in Lokoja Kogi State on 31st of May 2025.
TRIBUTE: Sonala Olumhense Strikes 70: Why there is only one Ess-Oh! By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

3 weeks ago | premiumtimesng.com | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Thursday, May 15, marked the 70th birthday of the inimitable journalist’s journalist Sonala Olumhense. I doubt that I would ever have become a journalist if not for my eventful meeting with the man called SO, or to put it in a more hip and contemporary vein, Ess-Oh!It was at Rutam House in Lagos that I appeared in the dying months of 1985 to gun for a place as a journalist in The Guardian, and then met the man.
Bookclub: The Spirit As The Missing Link Of Evolution

3 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Reviewed By Uzor Maxim UzoatuOasis In The Desert Of Time – Critical Perspectives on the Nature of GOD for Cosmic-Consciousness & Spiritual Growth by Godson Onochie Amechi; Ezu Books Ltd, Enugu, Nri,Abuja, Connecticut; 2021; 327ppIt takes courage to delve into the vexed issue of conflating science and religion. There is the abiding matter of the missing link in the theory of evolution that science has thus far not supplied. An author on Spiritism deigns to solve the puzzle.
US Deports Six Nigerians

3 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

From Victor Osula, AbujaThe United States has deported six Nigerians over various criminal offences as part of its ongoing immigration enforcement efforts. The deportees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Wednesday aboard a Delta Airlines flight. They were received by officials from relevant Nigerian government agencies, who are expected to determine the next line of action.