Guardian Arts
20 Mar 2015
Jaiyesimi also talked briefly about other upcoming theatre presentation of the group. She said during the Easter, Midnight Hotel by Professor Femi Osofisan would be presented in Lagos and The gods are not to blame in the United Kingdom.
18 Mar 2015
For the second year in a row since the telecommunication company, Etisalat Nigeria, instituted the pan-African Etisalat Prize for Literature, Nigeria’s young fiction writers have been missing the big prize. They only came second and third, while their colleagues from East and South Africa have held the aces as South Africa’s Songeziwe Mahlangu, author of Penumbra smiled away, on Sunday night, with the 15,000 pound sterling prize money for the 2014 edition.
18 Mar 2015
IN a bid to use dance as a tool for talent and community development, The QDance Centre, which is an initiative registered under the Creative Culture Support Foundation, presents Dancing Cities, a unique dance concert / dance competition that holds within the communities every trimester, moving from one neighborhood to the other. It is to be a confluence of various dance forms, whether it is hip-hop or ballet, ballroom or Afrobeat, contemporary or traditional dance styles.
18 Mar 2015
The National Chronicle, a newspaper of national interest, has named Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan has its African woman of the Year and Blessing Okagbare as African sports Woman of the year 2014.
17 Mar 2015
The film, Bintu, was last week premiered in Lagos at a colourful event that had friends, colleagues and mentor of the producer in attendance.
Packaged by Karfy Communication Concepts Limited, the film is about a young lady who got raped by a very closed friend at a time she was trying to see that her sick mother gets off the sick bed. So the story is about layers of crises that lust, rape and other related vices often caused.
17 Mar 2015
The Delta Book Club, a subsidiary of the Enugu-based Delta Publications (Nigeria) Limited and conveners of the annual Coal City Book Convention has resolved to immortalize the company’s celebrated and widely-revered author, Alhaji Abubakar Gimba, who died recently, with The Abubakar Gimba Literary Award. It will be recalled that Delta Publications (Nigeria) Limited published Gimba’s…
15 Mar 2015
This years’ edition of the Filmmakers’ forum organized by the Nollywood Studies Centre would be hold on March 18 at Pattaya Oriental Restuarant, Adelola Hopewell, Victoria Island by 4pm
15 Mar 2015
Still Standing is an emotional drama, a chronicle of love and pain that narrates the story of a woman’s plight in an attempt to raise her teenage children and caring for her husband, while trying to sustain the family core values, livelihood and her sanity.
15 Mar 2015
Top American star, Lauryn Hill will storm Nigeria on Friday May 1, for Mayday Live concert. The singer will headline the corporate concert put together by X Media, scheduled to hold at the Eko Hotels and Suites.
15 Mar 2015
In the face of myriads of challenges facing today’s managers, Latern Books has published, The Courage to Succeed, an entrepreneurial guide to practical business management.
15 Mar 2015
THE book, Nigeria’s Odyssey: Visions, Illusions and Delusions or Transformations, written by Dele Owolowo highlights some of the ills that have continued to stunt Nigeria’s growth and development. Published in 2013 by Vintage Press Limited, Lagos, it has ten chapters, and four appendices. It serves a warning that without a functioning social economy and a relevant leadership profile, it will be impossible for Nigeria to present a credible image of achievement for the world.
15 Mar 2015
HAPPINESS, Like Water, is an original and evocative book written by Chinelo Okparanta, one of Nigeria’s few women creative writers.