If they succeed in capturing Jato Acka, the Turan headquarters, then the entire Tiv nation will be at risk. Jato Acka is the ancestral home of the Tiv people, much like Ile-Ife is to the Yoruba.

Turan has yet to nail down the pacing when it gets busy because dishes come out of the kitchen sporadically as more people show up. On a recent visit, staffers started leaving pitchers of water at ...

Turan’s new book, “Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation,” tells the story of MGM through the lives and partnership of the two men who ran the studio from its birth in 1924 ...