Colours, culture on display as Victoria Island carnival lights up Lagos
By Prisca Sam-Duru & Onyeka Ezike Victoria Island Lagos’ daily activities, usually marked by deafening sounds from corporate engines, horrific traffic and noise from several commercial activities are being replaced by a different kind of vibe – entertainment. This is as Downtown Promotions lights up the streets of Victoria Island with its unveiling of the maiden […]
Let’s educate the nation by writing
The dearth of books is a major contributor to the decline in education in the country. The rare sight of books has even created strangeness between books and people.
Writing Twilight at Terracotta Indigo was a healing process for me – Umari Ayim
Young Umari Ayim, a lawyer and a writer was the guest of Abuja Writers’ Forum for the month of August. In this piece, TUNJI AJIBADE highlights the thrills and frills of the event
Reading culture: illiteracy, bane of economic development
It is no longer news that the Nigerian reading habit is generally low and this has been confirmed by several experts and as part of efforts to stem the tide, the federal government launched the Bring Back the Book, BBB project on December 20, 2010.
1st Peter Areh lecture holds in Lagos
As part of moves to immortalise one of the liveliest and most committed art promoters that worked in Nigeria in the 21st century, late Peter Dubem Areh for his great contributions to the development of art, the Art Republic in consultation with the Areh family of Onitsha has concluded plans for the maiden memorial lecture in his honour tagged 1st Peter Areh lecture on Art and Cultural Enterprise.
As our Fred Agbeyegbe’s judiciary dances naked, BUDISO!
It took just a sneak preview of BUDISO by Barrister Fred Agbeyegbe at the celebration of Prof. Wole Soyinka at 77 in furtherance of the newly conceived Living Legend Series for septuagenarians who have impacted the practice of theatre as part of National Association of Theatre Practitioners NANTAP, Lagos led by the shining light of Mr. Mufu Onifade to compel me into a must see of the full play.
