Cletus Ogbonna, while growing up, wanted to be an engineer. Now he repairs watches. Does he make enough to take care of himself and his family? Find out this and more in the video.
Lagos students walk for Ambode’s re-election
Indigenous students of Lagos State in tertiary institutions across the country and beyond on Wednesday staged a solidarity walk to Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja, to endorse the State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode for a second term in office. An…
Is Makinde Adeniran lost in Lagos?
Makinde Adeniran is a dramatist, culture consultant and chairman of the Lagos chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP). Although he was born in Lagos, he is of Egba origin. When did he go to Egba…
New MTV Base show takes fans into homes of Nigeria’s biggest celebrities
‘Celeb Living’, MTV Base’s new show will take fans behind the doors of their favourite Nigerian celebrities. A statement from the company said the show to be anchored by its VJs Folu Storms and Ehiz, will take viewers all over…
Another OAU lecturer in sex-for-mark scandal (Punch)
A lecturer at the accounting department of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Richard Akindele, is in the eye of the storm over the release of a telephone conversation between him and one of his female students where the…
This is why Olawunmi Boyede loves Lagos
Olawunmi Boyede has many reasons to love Lagos. One such reason is that he was able to set a new world record in the reading aloud marathon by an individual in Lagos. Want to know the other reasons? Find out…
China-made brain pacemaker brings hope to Parkinson’s patients (ChinaDaily)
Nearly 10,000 Chinese patients have received deep brain stimulation surgery since the first China-made brain pacemaker was implanted in a patient’s brain in November 2009. “Deep brain stimulation surgery has become an important method to treat the patients suffering from…
Kene Mkparu: Turning Lagos to a big screen
When Kene Mkparu returned to Lagos in 2008 from his sojourn in London, it was to a city with little or no cinema culture and even fewer big screens. Now the story of cinema in Lagos cannot be written without…
Niniola, Skales, DJ Jimmy Jatt, Naeto C, others have a chat on MTV Base’s Musicology
In the past decade Nigerian music has enjoyed a meteoric rise and we have gone from creating music solely for local consumption to becoming the largest export of African music which currently is at an overwhelming demand across the world.…
Ayo Adebanjo: The man and his politics
When friends, family and political associates gather in Ijebu-Ogbo, Ogun State today, to celebrate the 90th birthday of Chief Ayo Adebanjo, they will be honouring a radical and progressive politician, a lawyer, elder statesman, a patriot, and a nationalist of…