THE good times may just be ahead for our long-suffering creative industry, as President Muhammadu Buhari has formally handed over the National Theatre Complex, Iganmu Lagos, to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Bankers Committee for restoration and redevelopment. According to the Governor of CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the scope of the intended […]

By Ekanpou Enewaridideke Contraries do exist. Contraries are everywhere like cobwebs spun by spiders. Contraries – when intellectually ‘panel-beaten’   – are indeed products of dialectical engagements and philosophical depths – though not all the time. Yet, contraries can only careen or canter as a canker when contraries collapse into a mould as a grouse against […]

By Chris Onuoha One of the take homes at the community healthcare programme organised by Jar Educational Group held in Lagos recently was the much created awareness on the effects of trauma in our lives. The group reiterated the need for healthy community life which according to them is a nation’s wealth, saying that despite […]

By Tonnie Iredia It was with mixed feelings that I received the news last Wednesday of the affirmation by the Supreme Court of the election of Rotimi Akeredolu as governor of Ondo State. Before the ruling, I had become quite apprehensive when the irregularity of having a sitting governor serving as the national chairman of […]

By Azu Ishiekwene WHEN you find two people from the Benin kingdom talking these days, chances are that they are talking artefacts. That kingdom never ceases to amaze me with the mythical, almost perplexing rootedness of its people to the past, side by side with a modern, avantgarde spirit.  Not that bread-and-butter issues have disappeared […]