Arts

Jameson Connects Lagos is back again with its Independence Day celebration and as you may have guessed – new experiences and a super cool venue packed with heritage! This October, Jameson will be coming to The Shrine! So get your patriotic vibe on and get ready to hang out at this Lagos Landmark, enjoy premium…

Jo Oparamanuike, founder of Comic Opera House (COH), is the Head of MUSON Opera Unit. The chemical engineering graduate of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri...

The publisher of The Guardian Newspapers, Lady Maiden Alex-Ibru, will headline the 2018 My Kind of Music programme of this year’s Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON) Festival of Arts.

For the nation’s maritime sector, the launch of the book, Harnessing Nigeria’s Maritime Assets, Past, Present & Future, by Bashir Yusuf Jamoh, could not have come at a better time...

Agitation for justice and humane ways of dealing with inhabitants of old-rich Niger Delta is not new. In fact, such agitations date back to the period of oil palm boom in the region...

In an unprecedented, innovative strategy to attract the $21 billion yearly remittances from Nigerians in diaspora, filmmaker and entrepreneur, Tony Abulu, has created a symbiotic relationship between Financial Technology (Fintech) and Nigerian creative industry, writes. Tony Abulu is not a new figure in the culture, creative industry (CCI). For over 35 years, he has been…

As part of efforts aimed at providing options for works of art as well as innovation in printmaking; Awoh Stella Mofunanya has explored the benefits of ginger starch for creative works. In her research on pulverised ginger starch as a vehicle for printmaking, Mofunanya shows how the technique can be introduced into printmaking process to…

Late 2017, this came across my twitter timeline. “In Hollywood movies, Russians/Arabs are (Nuclear) terrorists, the Japanese die aimlessly in battle, the Americans are the smart, patriotic, pragmatist who always saves the day. That is how Film is used to brand a country, to shape the social values and worldview (politics) of a country. If…

When the gifted painter, John Madu, burst on to the scene in 2015, few would have expected him to be a recurring feature on the visual art narrative. But with three solo shows in three years, he has triumphantly embraced the creative muse and woven an identity for himself with acrylic.     Recently, when…

A UK-based Nigerian, Marianne Olaleye, has been shortlisted among the top 100 photographers in the prestigious Portrait of Britain photography contest and will have her works featured in the first Portrait of Britain book, featuring 200 shortlisted images. Launched in 2016 by the British Journal of Photography (BJP), the Portrait of Britain is an annual…

Irish rock group U2 was forced to cut short a concert in Berlin before thousands of fans after performing only a few songs when lead singer Bono lost his voice.

To wean the country of negative influence from other cultures, President, Eko Club, Chief Tunde Fanimokun, has called for a revival of lost cultural values.He said this at the 2018 World Indigenous Day Celebration organised by Centre for Indigenous Communication, Lagos.