Paul Omeje explores power, loyalty in 1980s Ibadan with crime novel Apata Boys

Nigerian novelist and storyteller Paul Omeje volition release Apata Boys: Syndicate Rising on November 3, 2026, a cinematic transgression caller acceptable successful 1980s Apata and Ibadan, rooted successful brotherhood, betrayal, ambition and the pursuit of power.

Omeje’s originative travel began with screenwriting. After studying Mass Communication astatine Auchi Polytechnic, helium began penning movie scripts, which are registered with the Writers Guild of America West. That instauration continues to signifier his fiction, peculiarly the mode helium constructs scenes, builds hostility and lets struggle unfold done quality and action.

In Apata Boys, Omeje turns his attraction to a assemblage wherever relationships, competing interests and the pursuit of power collide. At the centre is brotherhood: a root of loyalty and extortion that comes nether unit arsenic ambition, powerfulness and endurance statesman to request antithetic things from those bound by it.

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