Twenty-two years after Fela‘s death, his accomplished older son, Femi Kuti, is 58 years old, the exact age Fela was when he succumbed to HIV/AIDS. Seun Kuti, his younger son, in whose hands the mantle of leading the Egypt 80…
Since Black Panther and Wakanda, Africa seems to have become the darling of tokenistic Western patronage again. It is now woke to be African only if it can be inspected through the lens of the West. Aspects of our multitudinous…
A two-year probe — aided significantly by a man on the inside who fed details to investigators — “has allowed us to destroy much of what, within the Nigerian community, is known as the ‘Maphite’ cult,” Italian police said in…
Award winning Nigerian poet and psychiatric doctor, Dr. Dami Ajayi is engaged in a twitter spat with British Airways following the loss/theft of his laptop while aboard a BA flight enroute Lagos from London. Dr. Ajayi was on his way…
Naira Marley, recently arrested for internet fraud, has not let his trouble with the EFCC disturb his creative output. While incarcerated, he released ‘Why’, bemoaning several frustrating life scenarios. After he was granted bail, he released ‘Opotoyi (Marlians)’, a ribald…
If you have ever been raped, you will never stand in judgement against Busola Dakolo nor try to rationalize the veracity of her claim. If you have a daughter who has been raped, you will never make a rape joke…
Embattled Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) has stepped down from his position. The news was conveyed in an Instagram post he made at 9.55am on July 1st 2019. His action was precipitated by Busola Dakolo’s allegations of…
2019 is half gone and if the music industry is already clear about some victories, Rema is one. Born Divine Ikubor in the ancient city of Benin, Rema, like most recent superstars making incursions into the music scene, arrived by…
(Paper delivered at the 2019 Annual General Meeting of the Lagos Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations(NIPR) on June 19, 2019) I want to thank the Lagos chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations for giving me…
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