Nigeria’s first indigenous variant of the chess game based on historical events in Lagos is set to be launched.

Oloyede Michael Taiwo, in this 91-page poetry book titled “Lagos is killing me”, published by The Roaring Lion Newcastle in 2020, gathers the expanse of the human experience of love, life, and death in his debut collection of poems.

The dual creative prowess of fine art and architecture blossom in the works of Olayemi Fagbohungbe. In his solo art exhibition titled “Blasque”, showing from October 10-17, 2021 at The Art Pantheon, 12D Bosun Adekoya Street Oniru, Lagos, the artist lifts moulded metal to a new contemporary basement in bronze.

It was one of the landmark achievements of the National Council for Arts & Culture on the eve of Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary, September 30, 2021, when the council, led by Otunba Segun Runsewe received President Muhammadu Buhari accompanied by the Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and other top Federal Government officials who came to inspect the gigantic Nigerian cultural exhibition mounted by NCAC at the Presidential Villa to mark Nigeria at 61.

Dutch artist Claudy Jongstra is as well known for her commitment to sustainability as she is for her signature artworks and installations made from wool felt. Her work is instantly recognisable: large in scale, rich in texture and vibrant in colour.

The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature has announced the shortlist of 11 competing for this year’s edition of the Prize worth $100,000.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, which Africa’s greatest raconteur and novelist founded at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka, the Anambra State Government has endowed a N1 million-worth Chinua Achebe Prize for Nigerian Writing.

The African Artists’ Foundation, AAF, has announced the launch of the Artist Solidarity Fund, a series of grants which the Foundation is empowered to disburse by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa.

By Osa Amadi, Arts Editor  They are 14 in number – all young and talented visual artists – featuring in the upcoming group exhibition of paintings and sculptures titled Emergence, designed to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of Alexis Galleries. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, October 2, 2021, from 3 p.m-6 p.m. […]

By Chris Onuoha The Politics of Representation, an exhibition of paintings celebrating award winning artist and art advocate Oliver Enwonwu was unveiled on September 20 at the Alliance Francaise Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos, running till October 10, 2021. The atmosphere was calm, and the people; art enthusiasts, students and art collectors in their numbers with the […]

Professor Dapo Asaju, former Vice Chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University and keynote speaker at the launch of the biography of the General Overseer of Deeper Life Church, Pastor W.F Kumuyi, titled, “W.F Kumuyi: Defender of the faith”, has challenged Pastor Kumuyi and his counterpart, Pastor A.E Adeboye of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, to speak out on the debilitating insecurity and myriads of other problems strangling Nigeria before the situation becomes irredeemable.  

‘Greener Pastures’, is title of an ongoing exhibition by iconic photographer, actor and artist, Bolaji Alonge and, Sola Otori and Friends, at the prestigious, Didi Museum, Lagos.

There may never be an end to police brutality in Nigeria. The nationwide protest in 2020; #ENDSARS, a peaceful campaign by the masses to end every form of inhuman treatment by men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, which many thought will help tame the bad officers in the force, appears to have succeeded in emboldening them.

The most popular books in the world, Bible and Koran respectively offer Christians and Moslems a strict but simple way of living a stress-free life, including codes of moral conduct

They ruled the world of authentic music prior to their splitting as a group, but their songs never stopped making a desirable impact on their listeners