Dr Mark Animal TV Show, a new wildlife-focused television series for children aged seven to fourteen, has been launched by Wild Africa Fund. This was said on Saturday in Lagos by Wild Africa Fund Nigeria’s Representative, Mr Festus Iyorah. “The kiddies show premieres this Saturday and every other Saturday at 8.45 a.m. on Silverbird TV Read More…
Wild Africa Fund has partnered Laycon Cares Foundation (LCF) and its client, Laycon, to raise awareness on illegal bushmeat trade in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Festus Iyorah, Nigeria Representative Wild Africa Fund on Friday in Lagos. The statement said that Wild Africa Fund had signed agreement with the Big Read More…
A REUTERS REPORT Nigerian artist Adebayo Ayodeji is targeting children to play traditional instruments like drums, which he worries could become extinct and erase an important aspect of the culture in Africa’s most populous country. In the megacity of Lagos, parents bring children to his twice-a-month drumming workshops to learn how to play drums and Read More…
Written by Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and published in 2022 by Footnote Press, Between Starshine and Clay is a composition of encounters with 11 living and 1 deceased titan of modern history. Manyika, a British/Nigerian/American writer, has produced magnificent word portraits of these 12 luminaries. The spirit emanating from each portrait evokes the abundance of images Read More…
Afrobeats artists should receive greater respect than they now do, according to Nigerian musician Olabisi Omokolade Oluwatoyin, better known by his stage name TY Buoyant. This is in light of the success that the genre has gained on a global scale. Afrobeats music from other continents deserves the same attention and global recognition, according to Read More…
Tems is stunning, then blocks At the Oscars on Sunday, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won the coveted best picture award as Hollywood accepted a surreal tale of a Chinese-American family resolving their issues across various dimensions. Seven honours were given to the film altogether, three of which went to the actors Michelle Yeoh, Ke Read More…
The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) said on Tuesday that nationwide movie theatre ticket sales in February totaled N278 million. The National Chairman of CEAN, Mr. Ope Ajayi, who made this disclosure in a Lagos interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), noted that the theatres had 122,295 gross admissions over the course Read More…
Hiring a ghostwriter of the calibre of J.R. Moehringer, on George Clooney’s recommendation, is one of the few wise moves Prince Harry has taken in the last five tumultuous years. Spare is compelling because it captures Harry’s unresolved emotional suffering, his panicked, blinkered determination, his improbably winning rapscallion voice, and his distorted, confused worldview. This Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday opened the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos. The President, along with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, inspected the entire complex. ”I declare this site open,” the President said. The urban redevelopment at the centre of Read More…
Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, a pioneer in Nigeria’s entertainment sector and the creator of the esteemed AMAA Awards, has passed away. After being in a coma since Saturday, she reportedly passed away at St. Nicolas Hospital in Lagos. While her coworkers and close friends, some of whom visited her in the hospital, refused to believe the news Read More…
