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Of masters and Enduring legacies

On September 21, 2025, the show, which celebrates the creative ingenuity of Nigeria’s revered art masters, will end. Titled, Enduring Legacies: A Collector’s Tribute to Masters, it opened August 30,...

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Eniogun… The Noble Warrior: Riveting tribute to Soyinka at 90

The term Japa is Nigeria’s latest gift or offering to English Lexicon after Nollywood. It is the latest label to identify youth surge and search for new identity. Applied loosely, Japa means ‘run...

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Police on alert over planned protest in Abuja

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) security apparatus and assets are currently on red alert following planned protests by some aggrieved youth The post Police on alert over planned protest in Abuja...

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Lagos Gallery Weekend 2.0 unveils, to celebrate art, culture and Lagos City

Returning for the second edition in Lagos, Lagos Gallery Weekend (LGW), a citywide celebration of art, culture and community, is scheduled to take place next weekend, from 28th to 30th March 2025. The...

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Broadcast content across border

All is set for the 2025 iRepresent International Documentary Film Festival (iREP). This edition is scheduled to hold between March 27 and 30 in Lagos. Holding under the theme, ‘Freedom, Rights and...

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Broadcast content across border

Light has dimmed on the acclaimed father of African cinema Souleymane Cisse. The Malian-born filmmaker, who is considered one of the pillars of African cinema passed on at 84. A recipient of the jury...

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Advertising: Pros, cons of regulation

It was a delight to see the public discourse on advertising regulation rebooted recently. The reboot, admirably, was not initiated by the industry or its stakeholders, but by someone not within that...

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44 communities in Kwara protest one-year blackout

Residents of Sobi Poly Feeder at Oke-Fomo in Ilorin West Local Government Area (LGA), which comprise 44 communities, on Tuesday staged The post 44 communities in Kwara protest one-year blackout...

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FG's failure to fund 2024 capital budget destroying businesses - Situation...

The Economic Situation Room, a coalition of 48 civil society groups in Nigeria, has warned that the Federal Government's failure to release funds for completed contracts under the 2024 capital budget...

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2024 TYBLI Young Adult Literature Prize shortlist unveiled

The TY Buratai Literary Initiative (TYBLI) has announced the finalists for the Young Adult Literature Prize 2024. The Young Adult Literature Prize aims to foster a culture of writings, targeted at...

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Yabatech alumni in Woven Imaginations

For the third year, Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) visual art graduates from 1997 to 1999 are staging their joint exhibition. This year’s edition with the theme, Woven Imagination’ is also the...

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Four years after, Bankers’ Committee completes restoration of National...

“This is beautiful,” the delighted culture activist and former editor of The Guardian on Sunday heaved after seeing the work at the National Theatre, now Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the...

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Eniogun... The Noble Warrior: Riveting tribute to Soyinka at 90

The term Japa is Nigeria’s latest gift or offering to English Lexicon after Nollywood. It is the latest label to identify youth surge and search for new identity. Applied loosely, Japa means ‘run...

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Mayowa Ayilaran: New copyright act has come to address flaws in old law

Mr. Mayowa Ayilaran is the Chief Executive Officer of the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria Ltd/Gte. The post Mayowa Ayilaran: New copyright act has come to address flaws in old law appeared first...

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Nun Danket Orchestra clocks 10

For the Director/ Founder Nun Danket Chorale, Orchestra and Band, Sunday Adeyinka Akapo, it is imperative to change the narratives of music by infusing classical and contemporary rendition into what...

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Bangladesh opens mosque for transgender hijra community

Kicked out of other prayer services, members of Bangladesh's transgender hijra community have been welcomed at a new mosque in the Muslim-majority nation with the promise of worship without...

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Renowned Nigerian playwright, Wole Oguntokun dies at 57

Renowned Nigerian playwright, producer, director and culture advocate, Wole Oguntokun, has died. He was 57. The post Renowned Nigerian playwright, Wole Oguntokun dies at 57 appeared first on The...

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Olupo marks first coronation anniversary in Grand Style with launch of N1B...

Following the demise of the immediate past Olupo, Oba Emmanuel Onaolapo Oyebamiji, Fadare II, who passed on Monday, January 3, 2022 at age 72, the kingmakers of the town, selected Oba Abdul-Rafiu...

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‘AMAA is a roadmap not just an event’

In this short—but informative—conversation, Ramond A. Anyiam-Osigwe (a Brother to the Founder) explains, to J.K. Obatala, the inner working of the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) ceremony. The post...

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The Royal Dynasty of Ile-Ife: Ancient rule, contemporary influence

Ilé-Ifẹ̀, widely acknowledged as the “Cradle of Yorùbá Civilisation,” holds a paramount position in the cultural and historical fabric of Nigeria and the broader West African region. The post The...

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