This year’s edition of the annual traditional ‘Oro’ festival, usually held in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has been scheduled for May 16, 2024, daytime and nighttime. This was disclosed in a letter issued by the Ayangburen Palace and signed by the…
Police avert riot as truck kills masquerade in Lagos
Operatives of the Lagos Police Command on Wednesday prevented violence after a truck crushed a masquerade to death in Mushin. The incident occurred along Isolo road around 2:30 pm. It was learnt that the truck laden with plywood crushed the…
Meeting the divine masquerade Abdulaziz Ude – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It was impossible believing what my eyes were seeing. I did a double-take because it’s not every day one sees a great masquerade walking alone, without attendants or courtiers or whatever. The scene manifesting before my very eyes in the…
Where the hell is Lagbaja? -Dami Ajayi
Once upon a time, in the Lagos of our recent past, specifically the 90s and early noughties, there was a musician whose sound held sway in the city. Strike that. Let’s say his music was the soundtrack of the city,…
Masquerade: Michael Jackson alive in Nigeria – Owen Logan & Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
This book is a fraud at first glance. The title, Masquerade: Michael Jackson Alive in Nigeria, warns any savvy reader who is old enough to know. The formerly slightly chubby, afro-haired prodigy of The Jacksons and then reborn twiggy, stringy-locked…