The Arts

NPL: How three authors turned pain, history and faith into poetry 

By Prisca Sam-Duru The 2026 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature nears its climax parading three poets, three different obsessions, but one common urgency — to hold a mirror to Nigeria. James Ngwu Eze writes against fear and silence. Tares Oburumu interrogates the colonial name we still bear. Ogaga Ifowodo asks a disturbingly simple […]
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Sam Igbe appraisal of Nigerian Education in print

Perhaps beyond the Stone Age rhetoric that Nigeria should go back to the roots in finding her footing in all aspects of her development challenges, having been wobbling for so long, is the need to ascertain and address the key variables in the key areas of Nigeria’s knock-kneed educational status. This is so because the rhetoric appears now quite over- flogged in defining the extents and margins of prevailing issues and concerns in Nigeria’s growth and her Human Development Index with regard to inputs made over the years in education.

Mountain of Yesterday: Death strikes

Although Nkiru informed her that she would henceforth be wearing black clothes, Amina had long known it was the traditional requirement for any woman who had just lost her husband in the community

Etisalat Plans Training Workshop for Flash Fiction Writers

Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunication company, Etisalat, has announced plans to hold a training workshop aimed at enhancing the skills of budding writers ahead of the call for submission of entries for the 2017 Etisalat Flash Fiction Award.

How the Oba of Benin banned my father from sculpturing – Osareti

Freedom of art would sound odd today but not in the ancient Benin kingdom where the artist needed permission from the Oba to practice, says Obasohan Osareti, a painter and sculptor whose workshop is located at Cane Village, Maryland, the National headquarters of Cane Weavers Association of Nigeria.

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