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 […]
Trained by the first professor of journalism in Nigeria
By the end of 1997, I left 9 Awofodu again, this time, never to return, to go and live in a four-bedroom flat at 16 Igbo-elerin Road, Okokomaiko, from where my younger brother had packed out and traveled abroad.
At ANA patrons’ night, stakeholders set agenda to improve reading culture
THE Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, Lagos chapter, has been urged to seek ways of addressing fundamental issues facing the decline of reading culture among Nigerians.
$100,000 Literature Prize, and the winner is…
The battle for who carts home the $1000 prize money for the 2018 edition of The Nigeria Prize for Literature competition draws to a final stage following the release of a shortlist of three by the Advisory Board for the prestigious prize.
2018 Olojo festival: Ooni harps on upholding cultural heritage
All is now set for the 2018 edition of the annual Olojo Festival, even as the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi harped on the importance of upholding cultural heritage in the nation.
Nigeria: tackling corruption with a children’s book
Bribery is a fact of life for most people in Nigeria, whether it’s a daily “dash” of a few naira to traffic police or payment of an “administration fee” to speed up maddening bureaucracy.
