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Waje’s “Red Velvet” is made for lazy Saturday mornings – Dami Ajayi

Five years after her self-titled and critically acclaimed debut, Words Aren’t Just Enough, Waje, whose stage moniker is styled after that acronym, hits us with her long-waited sophomore album called Red Velvet. With 10 songs lasting 42 minutes, it is…

The rise and fall of Burna Boy? – Toni Kan

Oh, we have seen it happen before. Blackky. Eedris 9ice Dbanj The list is long! They rise, they burn incandescent, bright stars illuminating our musicos-phere and then they burn out, interred in some unforgiving black hole. Most often, they are…

All hail Burna Boy, Naija’s biggest music star of 2018 – Toni Kan

It was a slow burn. And the truth is no one saw it coming. No one could have predicted, even by October this year, that Burna Boy, the hyper active music act with the repetitive drawl would become Nigeria’s biggest…

A minute silence for those we lost in 2018 – Dami Ajayi

A birth and a death; both mark our points of entry and exit into and from this world—and every year, we are affected by the deaths of remarkable individuals whose lives have touched ours and changed it. Let’s begin with…

Vote me, I will deliver —Jimi Agbaje

The governorship candidate of Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje has described himself as a sincere and devoted person whose ambition is for the common good. He also labelled PDP the party of choice, given recent…

Finally: Atiku heads to America (The Cable)

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has finally been issued a visa to the United States, TheCable can report. A family source disclosed this to TheCable on Saturday and confirmed that the former vice-president has left…

Nora Roberts is mad at Tomi Adeyemi (Find out why)

Nora Roberts, American author of over 200 books is very upset at first time author, Tomi Adeyemi, whose first novel, “Children of Blood and Bone” is a bestseller. Ms. Adeyemi had in a November 27, 2018 tweet suggested that Ms.…

Thisislagos mourns Tosyn Bucknor (1981 – 2018)

Thisislagos mourns Tosyn Bucknor, OAP, writer, songwriter, actor, wife and lover of life who passed on yesterday, Monday November 19, 2018 according to news reports. Tosyn, who was born with the debilitating sickle cell anaemia is believed to have been…

The Idibala dance as man’s ultimate destiny – Dami Ajayi

King Monada’s song, Malwedhe, is probably the fastest growing trend on the continent. South Africa’s music scene has already, grudgingly, crowned Malwedhe the dance jam for the festive season. The internet is awash with short clips of dancers doing the…

Abiodun “Breaks Free” with new album – Dami Ajayi

IT has been a while since the turn of millennium when the BANTU Collective came to Lagos through promotional appearances for their first album, Fufu. This was during the Pre-Channel O era before Pay  View TV became popular. This was…

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