WELCOME to the new year (2024) – with fervent hope that it will turn out to be more prosperous and less tumultuous than 2023. In furtherance of our current …
Femi Akintunde-Johnson
ONE of the simple pleasures of life is the opportunity to recline on the sofa, with a good book and a chilled bottle of wine trembling in the convivial …
The special three-weekend WOMA-R event also includes a Roundtable discussion of diverse showbiz personalities focusing on issues of serious concern to the Nigerian creatives: artistes vs labels relations, equitable royalties, …
FEW YEARS ago, in our book ‘Fame: Untold Stories of its Fall and Rise’, we went “down memory lane” through the passages of Lagos nightlife, and the men that …
‘The consequences of the prevalence of cheap contraband drugs in Nigerian major city centres can be measured by the upsurge of mental health cases in our hospitals, amongst young Nigerians …
‘I am a product of public education; my parents, poor as they were, did not groan to send me to school; and I got enough quality to allow me make …
‘Those who tagged the administrations of Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Bihari as clueless for divergent reasons, largely coloured by partisan interests and frustrations, must be in shock and at a …
‘…we have begun to lose our long-held and cherished fabric of hierarchical order of discipline, commonality, and civilisation. When children no longer respect or revere their fathers; when mothers no …
WHILE preparing a tribute to mark the passage of the Ozziddism priest that May of 2008, another great man of the arts, the venerable Steve Rhodes also took leave of …
‘All through our trips, the thought kept recurring in my subconscious: what if those itinerant drifters and scavengers had removed some of the steel columns or even the ramparts securing …