Three years after her first award winning feature film, Road to Yesterday, Nollywood screen goddess, Genevieve Nnaji has returned with her sophomore feature, Lionheart starring a slew of Nollywood greats – Pete Edochie, Onyeka Onwenu, Nkem owoh, Chika Okpala aka…
Pitfalls to Destiny Fulfilment: Shaping tomorrow to ensure it turns out well – Toni Kan
In the eponymous short story of Helon Habila’s award winning debut, Waiting for an Angel, a young man goes to a seer to find out when he will die. The seer tries to dissuade him in his quest but the…
StanbicIBTC facilitates training of 25 journalists at TMTR Training Room
StanbicIBTC bank has facilitated the training of 25 Nigerian journalists drawn from across online and traditional media outfits at the Lagos based TMTR Training Room. The programme focused primarily on equipping the participants with tools and insights to better understand…
Toni Kan and siblings celebrate Dad at 75
Award winning writer and online publisher Toni Kan and his siblings threw a high octane shindig for their father on Saturday, November 24, 2018 at the Rajulie Hall of Temple School, Ilupeju. The event which was anchored by poet, Efe…
Three lessons I took away from the Ake Festival 2018 -Uzoma Ihejirika
When it was announced that this year’s Ake Arts and Book Festival (AABF) would be held in Lagos, two emotions gripped me: surprise and joy. Surprise, because well…why would anyone want to hold Ake Festival anywhere but in Abeokuta? On…
‘Give us Each Day’: A juvenile adventure written in blood – Toni Kan
How did a 12-year-old Nigerian boy end up in a Libyan refugee camp? That is the question at the heart of Samuel Monye’s gripping and award winning debut novel, Give Us Each Day, published by Quramo Publishing in 2018. Monye…
‘In Line’ – Tope Oshin’s amazing film many won’t see – Toni Kan
There were just 11 of us in the hall the day I went to see the new Tope Oshin movie, In Line. Of the 11, two of us were men and at the end of the movie, the eight women…
Holding a conversation with a country –Toni Kan
Funke Egbemode, Conversations with my Country, Numero Huit Ltd, 2013, 258 Pages How does one hold a conversation with his or her country? That is the question at the core of Funke Egbemode’s second book, Conversations with my Country born…
Austin Avuru: The intellectual Oil Man @ 60 – Toni Kan
On the night of Tuesday, March 26th 2013, a full year before Seplat Petroleum Development Company became a publicly quoted company, Austin Avuru, the Chief Executive Officer, shared a very interesting insight with members of his Leadership team. The occasion…