Twenty years after the music icon and iconoclast, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, passed on, a Nigerian version musical theatre interpretation of him and his work hit the stage last weekend ...

Felabration was instituted in 1998 by the children of the legendary Nigerian singer and has since become one of the most anticipated music events in Nigeria.

From today, Friday, October 14 through Sunday, 16, lovers of live theatre will experience spectacular fun at MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos, as the centre’s yearly MUSON Festival of the arts opens with a Broadway-style Musical Theatre.

Few people in the history of Nigeria have had the power to expose the innate, unrelenting, and abiding corruption in the marrow of Nigerian leaders as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Gbajabiamila argued that with that song, the musician was referring to the military government.

It's another October 1 and it's Nigeria's Independence Day anniversary. Many Nigerians would have composed the “Happy Independence” messages they intend to send to their friends some days ahead; many would have designed the independence flyers and flags they would use as DPs, while some may have gone a step further to even buy green…

It has been said that music is one of the most powerful, most compelling and most glorious manifestations of human cultural heritage.

Nigerian music industry is filled with all manners and genres of music that one way or the other has effects on the young adults, particularly on their behavior, schoolwork, social interactions, and mood.

It is quite inscrutable, why more and more trees have been falling so frequently on trees in our wonderful country, where forces of darkness apparently conspire daily to demonize our 17-year - old democracy and its concomitant governance culture.

I am confounded by the flood of lamentations and concerns being expressed by people outside Britain, especially, Nigerians, over a decision a country and its people consciously and deliberately made.

Afrobeat progenitor, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, foremost friend, confidant and manager, Rikki Stein has said that the I.T.T singer remains an enigma, adding that at 58, the late Afrobeat icon had been arrested 200 times.

Afrobeat prince, Seun Kuti will today lead the Egypt 80 Band to the New African Shrine for their monthly live show.