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10 Mar
As an author, I was invited to the 55th Cairo International Book Fair from January 25 to February 6, 2024. The event was conducted at the Egypt International Exhibition Centre situated in the burgeoning New Cairo. The attendance recorded within the 12 days was unprecedented and has been classified as unique and highly successful. The…
10 Mar
Patrons Modern and Contemporary African Arts (MCAA), a full-fledged arts-focused organisation, has concluded plans to hold its sixth miniature exhibition in Lagos this month.
10 Mar
Filmmaker Xavier Dolan, who received the jury prize for Mommy at the 67th Festival de Cannes in 2014, has been named President of the Un Certain Regard jury of the 77th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival.
10 Mar
One of Nigeria’s renowned poets, polemicists and former Private Secretary to the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, Mr Odia Ofeimun, has said AI has no power to superintend over imagination without being an instrument of imagination.
10 Mar
MADHouse by Tikera Africa has unveiled its pioneering cohort, the Lens-Based Incubator Programme (LensBIP).
10 Mar
The new Director General, National Gallery of Art (NGA) Ahmed Sodangi formally resumed Tuesday March 5, promising that the NGA Establishment Act for Repeal and Re-enactment will receive his priority attention.
10 Mar
From February 24 to March 16, 2024, sculptor and visual artist, Reuben Ugbine’s works, Monuments of the Soul, will be on show at O’DA Art gallery in Victoria Island, Lagos.
10 Mar
Renowned cartoonist, Barbara Brandon-Croft, first nationally syndicated African American female cartoonist visited Nigeria from February 18 to 24, for America Speaker Programme titled, Sketch & Satire: The Art And Impact of Editorial Cartooning.  Brandon-Croft is best known for creating the comic strip Where I’m Coming From.
10 Mar
Over 16,000 students have graduated from Terra Academy for the Arts (TAFTA) having acquired skills in the creative industry.
10 Mar
The history of post colonial Africa is replete with dictatorship, tyranny, oppression, subjugation under restrictive laws and abridgement of freedoms.
10 Mar
In a groundbreaking move to mark International Women’s Day 2024, Africa’s number one music streaming platform, Boomplay, in partnership with Smirnoff has unveiled the Black Phoenix campaign.
10 Mar
The new Executive Director of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), Dr. Shaibu Husseini, has finally assumed office, with a call to the management and staff to cooperate with him to add more blocks to those already erected by his predecessor, Alhaji Adedayo Thomas.

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. Abdullahi Usman Bello as the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), pending confirmation by the Nigerian Senate. Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, confirmed Tinubu's approval of Bello's appointment in a statement on X on Thursday. According to the Ngelale, Dr. Bello is a consummate…
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The Federal Government said the first phase of the Lagos-Calabar highway will be completed within the next three years. This was disclosed on Thursday in a statement by Ben Bem Goong who is the spokesman to the Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi. Goong made this announcement following Umahi's inspection of the Lagos-Calabar coaster highway…
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