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

Prince Charles Dickson Ph.D.A man, convinced his wife was unfaithful, visited a village juju man for answers. The diviner demanded sand from the man’s yard for a ritual. Two weeks later, the man returned with the sample. After incantations, the juju man revealed shocking truths: the man’s children were not his, his daughter was entangled with five men, and his wife carried his brother’s child. Instead of despair, the man laughed.

1 week ago | thisage.com.ng | Ayo Kehinde |Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

By Ayo KehindeOperatives of the Kano Command of the Nigeria Police have arrested 18-year-old Saudat Jibril, accused of killing her husband, 30-year-old Salisu Idris, barely nine days after their wedding in the Farawa community of the state. A statement by the Spokesperson of the State Police Command, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, said the suspect “allegedly cut off the throat of her husband, with a sharp knife”.

1 week ago | thisage.com.ng | Babafemi Ojudu |Bayo Onanuga |Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Ojudu, rightI have pondered on this for a long time, and I must now give voice to it—before we are once again used and discarded, before we are called out, not to think, but to chant. In less than two years, another round of elections will arrive. And, like clockwork, those who sit in power—feeling threatened—will summon a familiar refrain: “Yoruba Ronu!” Think, Yoruba, think! But is it really about thinking? Or is it just another ploy to manipulate and distract?

1 week ago | thisage.com.ng | Charles Dickson

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called for the urgent intervention of the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Chief Justice of Nigeria over what it described as a clear breach of judicial ethics and hierarchy in Niger State, where Justice Bilkisu Yusuf of the Niger State High Court is reportedly set to deliver judgment in a matter that is already under consideration by the Court of Appeal.

2 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Promise Adiele |Bart Nnaji

I have made some interesting trips in this life. Lets do recall of my journey to the Caine Prize Writing Workshop in Ghana back in the year of Our Lord 2009. The invitation from Nick Elam, the then administrator of the Caine Prize for African Writing, was straightforward: This is to invite you to participate in the Caine Prize Workshop for African Writers that will take place at the Royal Beach Resort and Hotel, Accra, Ghana between 21 April and 1 May 2009.