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Tuface and Annie weds in Dubai!

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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

we wish them a very wonderful and happy married life together!

Wole Soyinka & J.P. Clark release Joint Statement on Achebe’s Death

Veteran writers and Achebe’s compatriots, Prof. Wole Soyinka and J.P. Clark, have said his death may not be unconnected to the bomb attacks that occurred in Kano on Monday.

In a joint statement they issued on Friday which was made available to Punch, they described him as “a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer”.

The statement entitled “On the Passing of Chinua Achebe,” read:

“For us, the loss of Chinua Achebe is, above all else, intensely personal. We have lost a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer and a doughty fighter.

“Of the ‘pioneer quartet’ of contemporary Nigerian literature, two voices have been silenced – one, of the poet Christopher Okigbo, and now, the novelist Chinua Achebe.

“It is perhaps difficult for outsiders of that intimate circle to appreciate this sense of depletion, but we take consolation in the young generation of writers to whom the baton has been passed, those who have already creatively ensured that there is no break in the continuum of the literary vocation.

“We need to stress this at a critical time of Nigerian history, where the forces of darkness appear to overshadow the illumination of existence that literature represents.

“These are forces that arrogantly pride themselves implacable and brutal enemies of what Chinua and his pen represented, not merely for the African continent, but for humanity.

“Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua’s people in Kano, only a few days ago, hastened the fatal undermining of that resilient will that had sustained him so many years after his crippling accident.”

Even though he lived far away in U.S.A, Achebe was still connected to his roots and followed closely the happenings in Nigeria.

BREAKING NEWS: Another Kano Bomb Blast!

According to confirmed reports from Kano state Nigeria,an explosion just occurred some minutes ago and we can confirm that the explosion occurred around Ring road hotoro axis. 


information gatered from sources said “I thought as much cos its close to my area and sounded as if the bomb is just next door. Let’s all be careful and be sure of any detail outside this before broadcasting.“


Chain of explosions around mega station area, hotoro, kano, and Persistent gunshots all over the place.number of casualties are not yet ascertain.



we will keep you informed on this.......

Professor Chinua Achebe goes home!

Nigeria’s literary icon and publisher of several novels, Chinua Achebe, is dead.

Mr. Achebe, 82, died in the United States where he was said to have suffered from an undisclosed ailment.

Information from reliable source disclosed he died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

A source close to the family said the professor had been ill for a while and was hospitalized in an undisclosed hospital in Boston. The source declined to be named because he was not authorized by the family to speak on the matter.

He also declined to provide further details, saying the family would issue a statement on the development later today.

Contacted, spokesperson for Brown University, where Mr. Achebe worked until he took ill, Darlene Trewcrist, is yet to respond to our enquiries on the professor’s condition.

Until his death, the renowned author of Things Fall Apart was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown.

The University described him as “known the world over for having played a seminal role in the founding and development of African literature.”

“Achebe’s global significance lies not only in his talent and recognition as a writer, but also as a critical thinker and essayist who has written extensively on questions of the role of culture in Africa and the social and political significance of aesthetics and analysis of the postcolonial state in Africa,” Brown University writes of the literary icon.

Mr. Achebe was the author of Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, and considered the most widely read book in modern African Literature. The book sold over 12 million copies and has been translated to over 50 languages worldwide.

Many of his other novels, including Arrow of God, No Longer at Ease, Anthills of the Savannah, and A man of the People, were equally influential as well.

Born Albert Chínụ̀álụmọ̀gụ̀ Àchèbé in Ogidi, Anambra State, on November 16, 1930 he attended St Philips’ Central School at the age of six. He moved away from his family to Nekede, four kilometres from Owerri, the capital of Imo State, at the age of 12 and registered at the Central School there.

He attended Government College Umuahia for his secondary school education. He was a pioneer student of the University College, now University of Ibadan in 1948. He was first admitted to study medicine but changed to English, history and theology after his first year.

While studying at Ibadan, Mr. Achebe began to become critical of European literature about Africa.  He eventually wrote his final papers in the University in 1953 and emerged with a second-class degree.

Prof Achebe taught for a while after graduation before joining the Nigeria Broadcasting Service in 1954 in Lagos.



While in Lagos with the Broadcasting Service, Mr. Achebe met Christie Okoli, who later became his wife; they got married in 1961. The couple had four children.

He also played a major role during the Nigeria Civil War where he joined the Biafran Government as an ambassador.

His latest book, There Was a Country, was an autobiography on his experiences and views of the civil war. The book was probably the most criticised of his writings especially by Nigerians, with many arguing that the professor did not write a balanced account and wrote more as a Biafran than as a Nigerian.

Mr. Achebe was a consistent critic of various military dictators that ruled Nigeria and was a loud voice in denouncing the failure of governance in the country.

Twice, he rejected offers by the Nigerian government to grant him a national honour  citing the deplorable political situations in the country, particularly in his home state of Anambra, as reason.

Adieu!

Mountaineer George Lowe, last surviving member of 1953 Everest expedition, dies at 89!

George Lowe, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, has died. He was 89.

One of two New Zealanders on the 1953 British expedition, Lowe (right) helped establish the final camp 1000 feet below the mountain's summit on May 28, 1953.

Lowe's widow, Mary, said he died Wednesday at a nursing home in Ripley, central England, after an illness.

One of two New Zealanders on the 1953 British expedition, Lowe helped establish the final camp 1,000 feet below the mountain's summit on May 28, 1953. The next day, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the peak.

As Hillary descended the next day, he told Lowe: "Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."

Lowe directed a film of the expedition, "The Conquest of Everest," and also made "The Crossing of Antarctica," a movie about a trans-Antarctic expedition later in the 1950s.

He is survived by Mary and three sons.

Adieu!