Just some months after President Jonathan had a fun-filled rendezvous with Nollywood and even promised them three billion naira, that robust friendship maybe hitting the rock as the entire Nollywood is angry with the appointment of the new chairman of the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), Dabo Danjuma, by the federal government. Stakeholders and leading practitioners [...]
E. E. Sule, Associate Professor of English at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, is no stranger to award winning, having won awards in literary competitions sponsored by Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, and shortlisted for the prestigious NLNG prize. But his recent winning of the Commonwealth Writers Prize with his novel, Sterile Sky, is certainly [...]
Barely a month after releasing his long awaited 17-track album, “D’Kings Men,” top Nigerian act D’banj is currently on top of the world for another achievement. The Koko master has announced he’s the new ambassador for Bank of Industry (BOI) One of his tweets this week reads thus: “Beginning of a New Era. BOI Ambassador. [...]
Since Omawumi Megbele emerged West Africa Idol’s first runner up winner in 2007, her career has not stopped growing at an impressive pace thanks to her unique stage presence, personality and voice. Omawumi first won the highly coveted “Next Rated Act” at the Hip-hop World Award after dropping her first single titled “In the Music,” [...]
Yoruba actor Ibrahim Chatta, who recently got married to Salamat, the daughter of Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi, a former Kwara state governor and now senator representing Kwara North senatorial district, is at present furious over a statement made by one of his friends on facebook, a few days back and this has forced the popular Yoruba [...]
It hurts like a blood disease That destroys blood cells of transparency And enzymes of credibility and reputation It restricts the flow of due process Veins are blocked with weak legislation And the drugs of court remain resistant Then the virus of corruption is injected When the blood is contaminated And all signs appear [...]
Chika Unigwe has been selected as the 2013 winner of the Sylt Foundation African Writer’s Residency Award Chika Unigwe from Nigeria is the recipient of the Residency Award which she’ll take up at the Sylt Foundation’s headquarters within the next few months. This new residency opportunity is to be awarded annually to writers of contemporary [...]
Of the matyrs who changed the face of Islamic Struggle corrently, was Imam Musa Al-Sadr, whose condition and whereabout, still, remained unknown? Though, I read a book sent to me, by one of my friends from London, tittled, The Vanished Imam: Musa Al-Sadr and Shi’a of Lebanon, whose author is Fu’ad. Ajami, a professor in [...]
Nigeria made history Wednesday when the judges of the Caine Prize for African Writing announced that out of the five writers on the shortlist of this year’s prize, four are Nigerians. They are Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Arts Editor of Trust Newspaper, for his short story ‘The Whispering Trees’ from the collection, The Whispering Trees, published [...]
Senator Dambo took another look at the total amount spent so far, nodded his coconut, and put the notebook back into the cabinet. He felt happy about the decision he had taken. No decision could be wiser. The elimination of Alhaji Hamza was the only guarantee to his winning the election. He lumbered over to [...]
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