Ben Jay ! De Jay ! THAT‘s the unmistakable high decibel voice of the “music man” announcing his arrival behind the microphone in studio C of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, NBC, …
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BACK in the 90s, we used to time each of his literary parturitions, the way a sprinter’s dash on the track to the finish-line is scored. The digital age hadn’t …
IT was fun at first sight.The first time I set eyes on Toni Kanayo Onwordi, famously known as Toni Kan, I found fun oozing from his every pore.He blazed into …
I ‘MET‘ this quiet, almost somnolent man through Evil Encounter…in 1983, and I had been studying his workings through the terrifyingly exciting 80s of the original Lagos Weekend Television, LWT …
AS we celebrate with you on your 60th, a significant milestone in the journey of life, may I use this opportunity to commend you also for being a Copyright Champion on …
PA Taiwo Akinkunmi, who at 23 in 1959, won the national competition to design the Nigerian flag, was 85 on Monday, May 10. He was felicitated by family, friends and …
AFRICA‘s prime platform for the promotion of documentary films, iREP International Documentary Film Forum, has rolled out greetings to one of its three founding directors, Ilemakin Soyinka, who clocked age …
ONE of Nigeria’s leading journalists, Shola Oshunkeye clocks 65 today, April 20. In his years of practice and marriage to the profession, Oshunkeye has seen it all as the popular …
By Chido Nwakanma THE good people of Enugu will gather this Easter Sunday in the best traditions of Igbo culture to honour a star of Igboland, Gentleman Mike Ejeagha. On 4 …
By Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju “YOU cannot stand in one spot to watch a dancing mask,” states an Igbo proverb quoted by the novelist Chinua Achebe. You need to watch the …