Arts

High-level talks, which precede endorsement and subsequent signing of film co-production agreements, have reached advanced stages between Nigeria, France, Norway, Morocco and other countries.

The ugly fate suffered by actors Stephen Odimgbe (Flash) and Martins Nebo (Abadnego), two prominent characters in the Globacom-sponsored television drama series, Professor Johnbull, in this week’s episode of the programme brings to the fore once again the negative aspects of social media.

This position was one of the resolutions reached at the end of a two-day Annual Roundtable on Cultural Orientation (ARTCO), organized by the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO).

Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance "The Shape of Water" took home best movie at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, putting it in pole position for Oscars glory in March. The movie bested leading Academy Awards contenders including "Call Me by Your Name," "Dunkirk," "Get Out," "I, Tonya" and "Lady Bird." In a crowded field,…

As investigation into the cause of fire that gutted Arts and Crafts Village, Abuja, continues, Director General, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Otunba Segun Runsewe, has blamed arts and crafts dealers for the incident.    According to him, Police preliminary report indicted owner of Shop 47, whose electric cooker, which was not turned…

The filmmaker Omoni Oboli is perennially busy. She got Okafor’s Law and Wives On Strike out in 2016 and just as 2017 was about to end, she had turned up with the sequel to the latter. While Wives On Strike is a thumbs down on Child Marriage, Wives on Strike: The Revolution is a damning…

Fela and his Kalakuta Queens, the new stage production on the Fela Years, had sold out even the one weekend extension as of Friday, January 12, 2018. The musical drama ran through the holiday season at the Terra Kulture Arena on Victoria Island, and was expected to have closed on January 7. But the sold…

Arthouse Contemporary’s twice-a-year auctions have become a way to gauge the prices of Nigerian artworks, but they contribute quite a small part of the volume of works traded in the country in the year, in the opinion of a keen art collector. “I don’t think that auctions and even the (large fair) ArtX contribute more…

When last did you, as a parent, take your children to a bookstore and actually buy them books? No, not textbooks for class work, but books for leisure or storybooks, as they are often called? In fact, when did you go to the bookstore last to get yourself a book for leisure reading? What about…

Many dignitaries are expected at the reception organized to honour the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Rahmon Bello. The programme, which holds February 3, at the Rotary Centre, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, is organised by the Yewa Development Forum, led by its National President, Alhaji Ayo Adeyemi. Speaking on the essence…

Pepsi music ambassadors Wizkid and Davido used the platforms of their headline concerts during the Yuletide to preach peace and love among Nigerians. At sold out “Wizkid the Concert” show at the Eko Hotel Convention centre, Lagos on Christmas eve, Wizkid putting up arguably the best show of his career in Lagos in recent times…

In 2017 there was a recurrent gripe from annoyed Nollywood patrons who saw certain films, “Why did they bother taking this to the cinema”, “some films should go to DVD straight” and similar gripes. They went in expecting an experience and did not get it, so, why should some films be seen in the cinema…