Toyin Odutola has become the third highest-paid Nigerian artist of all time after her drawing ‘Compound Leaf’ sold at the Sotheby’s for £471,000 (roughly N215 million). News Agency of Nigeria reports that this record-breaking sale puts Odutola behind a fellow female…
Meet Daniella Soje, artistic creator (the Bubbles Award) and winner of the PowerPuff Girl Awards
Award winning 11-year-old Daniella Soje, a young artist from Nigeria who uses toothpicks, matchsticks, beads, and other household materials to create artistic designs, has set out to inspire young people in her community to embrace art as a tool for…
A marketer, clothier and now an artist -Michael Jimoh
As a graduate of marketing from an American university, Ebikebana Akpi, would have landed a plum job with any company worth its corporate name in Nigeria. As an American trained tailor, he would have had a long line of high…
Lagos is the centre of the art business – Tobenna Okwuose
Tobenna Okwuose is an artist and teacher at the Niger Delta University, Amassama in Bayelsa State. He loves Lagos because it is the centre of the art business in Nigeria and for many more reasons that he lists in the…
I love the character of Lagos -Prof Peju Layiwola
Prof Peju Layiwola of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) says she loves Lagos because of the character of the city. She goes on to explain the said character of Lagos. Find out in the video.
I go home every year -Theodora Ikpa
Theodora Ikpa may have been born and bred in Lagos but the artist loves to travel to her hometown. And she does that more than once every year. What is more, she says she is not lost in Lagos. Find…
I love Lagos because of the crowd -Ato Arinze
Ask Ato Arinze, a potter and a sculptor what he loves most about Lagos and the artist says the crowd that forms the mass of the city’s population. There is another reason but he emphasizes that it is definitely the…
Everything is in Lagos – Theodora Ikpa
Theodora Ikpa has said that everything a person desires can be found in Lagos. The artist, who works mostly in poetry and abstracts, said she loves the city of aquatic splendour not just because she was born here, but also…
Salah Gaova is Lagos Oyinbo
If you have ever wondered how a house husband looks like, then you are in luck. Not that such men look any different. But Salah Gaova, an artist and producer from France, said he is such a man. How did…
Shobayo Abolore is lost in Lagos
Shobayo Abolore is a visual artist, politician and fashion designer, who has always lived in Lagos. Born in the city of aquatic splendour he is however traces his roots elsewhere. Where is that and when was the last time he…