About 28 years after it was abandoned, Nigeria’s primary centre for the performing arts - National Arts Theatre is now undergoing reconstruction, courtesy of the Central Bank of Nigeria

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, yesterday, disclosed that the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos and its facilities will create no fewer than 25,000 jobs when completed.

Therefore in 2018 when the Swiss government mooted the idea to return the second and last tranche of the Abacha loot to Nigeria, it did it in three ways. One, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Nigerian government with a strong proviso and commitment that the Nigerian government put the monies to…

The legion of derelict Federal Government properties worth several billions of naira in Lagos State, the former Nigerian capital, is indicative of how wasteful the country could be. In other climes, such edifices are kept as national monuments or transformed into money-spinning ventures for government.

The result is that our governments are always trying to copy what others have done, the few times they try to do anything tangible.

In 2005, when the same assessment was carried out in 127 cities around the world, Lagos was rated the fifth worst city to live in. The other cities in the bottom 10 like Lagos were Abidjan, Harare and Duala, all in Africa.

Today is the opening of Africa Fashion Week Nigeria  (AFWN) at The Iconic National Arts Theatre in Lagos Nigeria;

On arriving in the United Kingdom (UK) to commence my undergraduate programme at the London South Bank University (LSBU), l first took up residence with my paternal uncle, Prince Akabudike Ochei...

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc. (EKEDC) yesterday confirmed that electricity supply to the National Arts Theatre in Lagos was disconnected for refusal to pay over N9 million owed.