For most people, Lagos will remain a metaphor for everything wrong with what a city should be. For some others, in spite of its anarchic nature, Lagos is an entity that represents a fertile space for survival.

The Nigerian Book Industry, marking the World Book Day amid the Coronavirus pandemic, has urged Nigerians and the entire world to use the opportunity offered by the current sit-at-home guideline to read books and stay safe.

By Osa Amadi Professor Akin Euba, who retired in 2011, lived in the United States until his death last Tuesday, April 14, 2020. A few years ago, he attended a conference with a few other Nigerian classical music scholars including Prof. Bode Omojola, in a university in the Caribbean. On one of the evenings, as […]

The Last Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci on the wall in the refectory of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan is said to reveal Leonardo at his superlative best. But just as the biblical event led to the tragic event of Good Friday (coincidentally on the same day this story is being written) and ultimately unto a victorious outcome, Easter Sunday, The Last Supper, as an artwork, bears a similar story.

By Prisca Sam-Duru Since the news of the passing away of Nigeria’s first female federal permanent secretary, poet, singer, and art supporter, Mrs. Francesca Yetunde Emanuel, was broken, the arts community has been thrown into mourning. Mrs Emanuel who died on Tuesday night of natural causes was aged 86. She is survived by husband, Chief […]

Co-author of popular early learners English handbook, Brighter Grammar, Ajibola Ogundipe has died at the age of 92. Ogundipe died on 27 March 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States, where she was buried on the same day. A statement by announcing the death read, “We are sad to announce that on March […]

Nigeria’s Bob-Nosa Uwagboe’s fame has risen rapidly as Africa’s foremost protest artist. Since he hit the international limelight through his distinctive style of painting, concepts, and curatorial skills of OUT OF AFRICA’s Acosta Sorella and Malgorzata Paszylka-Glaza, Curator of the Modern Art Department, The National Museum in Gdansk, Poland, he has been a regular feature in exhibitions in Europe, especially in Spain and Poland.

By Japhet Davidson Just from the city of  Wuhan, the capital of Hubei  China, COVID-19  came like a plague and ever since it appeared, the world has not known peace as the  pandemic has continued to ravage the entire world, forcing many governments/organisations to lock down. Ordinarily, the arts and culture events are regarded as […]

Japhet Davidson DESPITE the economic crunch coupled with the Covid 19 crisis that is changing the plans of many organisations especially people in the art industry, one gallery that is bent on maintaining its programmes is Alexis galleries. And in line with art lovers, promoters, collectors are set to explore the best of artistic creativity […]

The need to celebrate Nigerian women whose impacts shape the world formed the central theme of “Woman of a Woman,” a collection of poems written by Miss Funke Awodiya.

The number of plays staged across the country, especially in Lagos State in recent times, is an eloquent testimony that theatre is finally bouncing back to its glorious position.

The tradition of rendering what is today known as the spoken word poetry to a live audience is an age-long feature of Africa’s traditional poems. Verbalization of poems in the form of songs, chants, praises, incantations, et cetera is characteristic of African traditional poetry. However, the emergence of the print media and subsequent preference for written literature had relegated this to an obscure background until recent developments in literature, technology and communication triggered its phenomenal re-emergence.

The author of “Ode to A Dancing Pen,” Brenda Nwafor has lamented funding as the major setback for authors to produce great works. She appealed to the federal government to create an endowment fund for writers to cushion the effects of the high cost of publishing in the country.

March 21 is the World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), observed annually as a global awareness day that has been set aside by the United Nations since 2012,  to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the  21st  chromosome which causes  Down syndrome.

The Chairman Judging Process of Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) Essay and Art Competition, Mr Adewale Okeowo, says 208 of the 679 entries received were declared void due to negligence. Okeowo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday that the panel experienced many invalid entries by students who did not follow the […]