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Art and Christianity

Art and Christianity

ART over the ages has been an expression of the characteristic attitudes of the people of an age. Art deals with our emotion as well as our intellect: it is another kind of non-verbal language and expression of human creative talent especially in a visual form for example painting and sculpture. This piece features on […]

Tribute: Iyorwuese Hagher: Thespian-technocrat @60

Tribute: Iyorwuese Hagher: Thespian-technocrat @60

BY  DOKI GODWIN JEFF IYORWUESE Hagher is undeniably a household name in the African literary establishment because his writings (especially the plays) are curiously and quintessentially rich both in terms of aesthetics and thematic preoccupations. In most of his writings, Hagher is passionately concerned with the issue of leadership and  in play after play the […]

Contemporary Nigerian poetry and garbage poetics

Contemporary Nigerian poetry and garbage poetics

BY EKANPOU ENEWARIDIDEKE POETRY is said to be a method  of expression that thrives on   spontaneity of powerful emotions that are given distinct artistic colour and flavour through the use of appropriate literary devices and diction. By practical extension of this perception,  poetry should be characterised by grace and beauty of language through the use […]

I served my mates in college ‘cos I was poor— Holy Mallam

I served my mates in college ‘cos I was poor— Holy Mallam

Holy Mallam? Are you from the   North? Holy Mallam is Ajibola Adebayo and I’m from Ogun State. My mother is from Niger State and my wife is from Abia State.  I’m a Christian and the third born of my parents. For how long have you been in the showbiz? This is my ninth year. How […]

Kel debuts @ last

Kel debuts @ last

Capital Hill rapper Kel tells anyone who cares to know that she is not in the Nigerian music industry to be a flash in the pan. And unlike her other female counterparts, since her debut on Ill Bliss’ 2007 hit single ‘You go wound’, the rapper has been permanently in our faces.  Having topped the […]

Charles Novia returns with unusual reality show

Charles Novia returns with unusual reality show

…25 winners to get acting deals Some call him the eccentric guy of Nollywood, others refer to him as Mr Think Tank, but he prefers to call himself by his natural name Charles Novia. He was one of the first to move office from Surulere to highbrow Lekki and where he discovered stars like Desmond […]

Things Nigerians stand to benefit from Yar’Adua if.., by Gov. Suswam

Things Nigerians stand to benefit from Yar’Adua if.., by Gov. Suswam

*Says President’s style guarantees stability and assured development *Speaks on his relationship with Senate president and Senator George Akume GOVERNOR Gabriel Torwua Suswam has been the governor of Benue State for two years now. As the nation continues its celebration of ten years of democracy, Suswan, who was a member of the House of Representatives […]

The story of Ateke Tom..and his ‘five-point agenda for peace’

The story of Ateke Tom..and his ‘five-point agenda for peace’

By George Onah Port Harcourt- About three years ago, precisely Saturday, July 8,  2006, Sunday    Vanguard met with the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante/Niger Delta Patriotic Forces Ateke Tom in his hideout in Okrika forest. It was shortly after he was attacked and chased out of Okrika community by the Joint Task Force, JTF, […]

Somali Pirates: Kidnapped Nigerian crewmen arrive Abuja

Somali Pirates: Kidnapped Nigerian crewmen arrive Abuja

By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA-The ten Nigerians kidnapped by Somali Pirates who hijacked their ship, MV Yenegoa Ocean off Somali waters, arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport , Abuja aboard an Ethiopian airline to the warm embrace of the Minister of Defence, Dr. Shettima Mustapha with the minister expressing federal government’s joy that the ten of […]

Onoh’s family rejects burial support from Enugu govt.

Onoh’s family rejects burial support from Enugu govt.

By Dennis Agbo FAMILY of the late former governor of old Anambra State, Chief C.C Onoh, has returned some building material items meant for renovations at the Enugu-Ngwo ancestral home of the Onohs’, which were brought by the Enugu State government as part of the government’s support for the burial of the late sage who […]