President, World Craft Council, Africa Region, and Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe, has advised industry players and institutional investors in the culture and tourism economy to beware of scammers and fraudsters masquerading as government-licensed consultants and financial consortium with powers to provide post-COVID-19 palliatives and sundry investment titles for a […]

By Prisca Sam-Duru The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global cultural scene notwithstanding, a new phase of the residency exchange, initiated in 2015 for young artists and curators, is taking place this year in Berlin and Lagos. The Nigerian half of the exchange program is jointly organised by Goethe-Institut Nigeria and Lagos-based creative […]

By Osa Amadi, Arts Editor & Chukwuma Ajakah From the circumstances surrounding this review by two pastors, we are persuaded to believe that the honor of having to review these God-inspired literary works of Oba Dr. Adedapo Adewale Tejuoso, Karunwi III, Oranmiyan, OsileOke-Ona Egba, did not come by accident. Only a few days before the […]

By Prisca Sam-Duru With that at the core of her moving narrative, ‘Dear Alaere’, Eriye Onagoruwa, an energy executive with passion for women’s causes, mirrors the dilemma women without children find themselves in, in a dysfunctional society.  Eriye’s tragic narrative is laced with intrigues and startling revelations about the goings-on in society. The story does […]

The Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe, has stressed the need for an all-inclusive evaluation of the creative industry against the backdrop of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at the inauguration of the thirteen Sub-Committees under the National Creative Industry Committee on Friday, Otunba Rusewe charged the heads of […]

By Chukwuma Ajakah Upcoming Nigerian writer, Esther Chizaram Ngele, has released a series of short stories which portray disturbing social ills bedeviling the human race within and outside Africa. Prominent among the stories is “Stolen Pride” with which the author protests against the menace of rape and related social ills. Other stories in the collection […]

By Osa Amadi Sunday, September 6, 2020 was the appointed day for the coronation of His Royal Majesty, Oba Abdulwasiu Omogbolahan Lawal, Abisogun II, as the 15th Oniru of Iru Kingdom, 90 days after the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, presented him with staff of office. The event which took place at the Oniru Palace, […]

By Chukwuma Ajakah Nigerian poet, Uche Ikpe explores moments of darkness in his debut collection of poems, “Blue Journal: Darkness” which portrays the unpleasant emotions bottled up in the life of a typical African youth. The anthology published by Coppell, TX (2019) consists of 21 poems spread across 41 pages. Focusing on “darkness” as the […]

By Chukwuma Ajakah Nigerian author, Prince Bawa K. Amos presents a compendium of the socio-cultural practices of the indigenous people of Zuru land in his book, “Zuru People of North-West Nigeria (Kebbi State): An Aspect of Lelna Cultural Heritage”. The book is a revelatory mine of information about the rich culture of an ethnic nationality […]

  By Osa Amadi Well-bred, well-educated Mary Edoyugbo is an Edo-State born visual Artist of distinction. Her style is pointillism. Mary lives in Port-Harcourt where she runs her own art studio. Passionate about greenery and a healthy environment, she is also a voracious reader taught by Mark Manson to “give attention to a few vital […]

The all-inclusive and broad composition of sub Committees on the implementation of creative industry intervention by Otunba Segun Runsewe has been commended by stakeholders in the industry. Otunba Runsewe, Director- General of National Council for Arts Culture (NCAC) and Chairman of Central Implementation Committee for Creative Industry inaugurated by Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji […]

By Chukwuma Ajakah Nigerian author, Prince Bawa K. Amos presents a compendium of the socio-cultural practices of the indigenous people of Zuru land in his book, “Zuru People of North-West Nigeria (Kebbi State): An Aspect of Lelna Cultural Heritage”. The book is a revelatory mine of information about the rich culture of an ethnic nationality […]

By Osa Amadi The entire world was bemused recently, listening to the haunting voice of the narrator on MSNBC News as he reeled out a staggering secret that had been effectively hidden from the world since 1721, but now revealed in non-fiction, meticulously researched and historical book, still simmering from the printing press this August […]

By Japhet Davidson After what seems to be a very long forced holiday caused by the dreaded Covid-19, art lovers and collectors who have been starved for months will have another feel and taste of new works courtesy of Alexis Galleries, one of the leading art galleries in Nigeria, as they open their exhibition hall […]

Eriye Onagoruwa, a lawyer and creative writer, has released her much-anticipated novel, Dear Alaere, an epistolary story of a modern, professional woman in search of work-life balance and societal acceptance in Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, Lagos.