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Lekki wives: The dust in the diamond

LEKKI Wives is a drama series written, produced, and directed by Blessing Effiom Egbe. She has amazingly carved a niche for herself in the crowded Nigerian movie industry. The sensational actress cum model who is a theatre arts graduate is a breath of fresh air in Nollywood setting out to push the envelope in her movie productions. Her movie’ Two Brides and a Baby’ got twelve nominations from the revered Nollywood awards The Best Of Nollywood(B.O.N)

Writers brainstorm on Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah

LAST month, established writers,literary aficionados, Rainbow Book Club members gathered on at Le Meridien, Ogeyi Place to discuss Chimamanda Adichie’s latest novel, Americanah. Those present grappled afresh with issues like race (‘blackness’), immigration, deportation and class, thanks to Adichie’s skilled writing that allows readers to form their own opinions. The novel was Rainbow Book Club’s book-of-the-month for July.

FIRS’s new drama series harps on tax compliance

The high rate of corruption in the land can be attributed to the inability of people to do their duties well and worse still those who fail to obey the law are not punished. It is a binding duty for all to pay their taxes, partake in environmental sanitation exercise, use the pedestrian bridges while crossing the express ways and other civic duties. But to many, the Nigerian factor where anything goes has taking the upper side to the extent that when you see one who wants to follow due process, the person is regarded as not normal.

Muson Symphony Orchestra performs in grand style

The MUSON symphony Orchestra, which is notably Nigeria’s only professional symphony orchestra, renowned for its high standard performance of various repertoires recently staged an extraordinary concert at the Agip Recital Hall of the MUSON centre, Onikan, Lagos.

Nigeria’s wasted years in print

The Last Dictator authored by Ned Tony Emeni, is hard cover book with 1029 pages that is in the same size category as the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

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