First, I will like to give all Glory to THE MOST HIGH GOD ALMIGHTY. In all things, at all times, HE is forever to be Praised. Twenty-five years of JUNE 12, is like staying in deep darkness with continuous severe…
Hope is a scarce commodity in Ema Edosio’s “Kasala” – Toni Kan
Director: Ema Edosio Film title: Kasala Year of release: 2018 Reviewer: Toni Kan Oscar winner, Antoine Fuqua, began his film career making music videos, so did Spike Jonze. Here in Nigeria, Ema Edosio has plied the same trajectory parlaying an…
From Shaku Shaku to Russia, Issa Goal! – Dami Ajayi
Russia 2018 is upon us. Nigeria is one of the African countries to show off melanin and swagger in that uber-cold European country and we, Nigerians, are excited. As you know, nothing unites Nigeria better than a good game of…
Lagos will break your heart like Arsenal FC – Hymar David
Forget the Abuja vs Lagos matter, let’s say the truth make devil shame small: Lagos is a killer. Lagos is a carnivorous city, a dream-eating beast. Lagos will break your heart more than any Yoruba demon can. You ask a…
Why this High Rate of Marital Infidelity and Suicides In Nigeria? – Magnus Onyibe
Anything that pushes a human being to take his/her own life by taking a plunge into the ocean with the sole intention of dying or stabbing/shooting/poisoning a fellow human being to death must be very tense and grave. That’s simply…
Emem Isong’s brother, Anietie Isong, shortlisted for UK’s biggest literary prize fund
The shortlists for the Betty Trask, McKitterick, Tom-Gallon and Somerset Maugham awards have been announced by The Society of Authors, with Nigerian writer Anietie Isong, amongst the 22 shortlisted names. The four prizes will be awarded at The Authors’ Awards…
Democracy Day: Did Buhari Deliver A Master Stroke? – Magnus Onyibe.
Just when President Muhamadu Buhari’s electability in the South West of Nigeria was beginning to look weak, (at a time that the enormous influence formerly wielded by his main ally Bola Tinubu is being badly eroded) his landmark decision to…
New MKO Statue: A-m-b-o-d-e, the man who saw tomorrow – Deacon Teniola Popoola
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode appears to be a man ahead of his time. His revolutionary and forward-looking innovation in traffic management, road infrastructure, bus reform, education, security, staff welfare and training, justice sector reform, bold interventions in the environment…
Contempt Orders: First Bank clears the air
First Bank has released a comprehensive and extensive statement four days after Honourable Justice I.N Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division, granted a motion in SUIT NO: FHC/L/NRJ/1/2018 committing the Chairman and Managing Director of FirstBank of…
DJ Neptune – No accolades for “Greatness?” – Dami Ajayi
In contemporary Nigerian music, the jury is still out on what should be done with the Long-Playing album. Should it be done away with as a true testimonial of its principal or as an inconsequential archival material fit only for…