THE challenge for technical and artistic excellence in the production and exhibition of gospel movies took centre stage again during the 3rd edition of Gospel Film Festival (Gofestival) which took place at the Jogor Center, Ibadan, Oyo State capital. For four days, filmmakers from the secular and Christian outfits mingled in series of workshops, symposia [...]

Unspoken Words, an exhibition of works by three Nigerian artists (Segun Aiyesan; Diseye Tantua and Gbenga Offo) took place recently at the Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos. All three artists are artists of note who have been around for quite some time. Having enjoyed their era of making beautiful pictures, they came together to show results [...]

By Adetola Asabo     It is a common phrase that is often said that “It is a man’s world”. This might be true more in Africa than in the West but it cannot be denied that the male species have it better than the female in a lot of instances. Some cultures even have [...]

The good thing about Nigeria is that it is not all a bad story. Nigeria has as her citizens, some of the most outstanding people that the world has ever seen. Everywhere you go in the world, you will see a Nigerian doing great things. We must begin to celebrate all these people and begin [...]

  As part of its activities to commemorate Nigeria’s 51st independence celebrations, Trinity House, a non-denominational, free flow Christian worship centre established in 2010 and powered with a vision to build leaders, professionals and leaders to be held its first Honours Awards ceremony on Sunday October 2 at the church premises at Landmark Village, Victoria [...]

V14 Ventures, a sole proprietorship owned by Valentina Chimonez recently organised a fashion sale fund raiser at SS Lounge, Victoria Island, Lagos with 100% of the proceeds going to the Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative (SAMI) founded by Ms. Toyin Adesola. A cheque for the sum of N155, 000.00 was handed over to SAMI [...]

By Mark Osama Ighile     It is possible for a man to lead another person into confusion and disarray. Not so with God. An individual may be following his superior for twenty years and later discover that he has been used and dumped. But that cannot be God. The reason for this striking difference [...]

  The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria recently held a Town Hall Meeting titled ‘For the Public Purpose: Deepening the FoI Act’ with Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and Ms. Suzanne Legault, the Canadian Information Commissioner as Guest Speakers. The event which took place at the AGIP Recital Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos was moderated by [...]

By Folake Jeremiah     “Are you saying there are rules associated with eating? Oh please!!! Let me eat my food and get it over it…” I can hear some people mutter the above statement to themselves but what they fail to understand is that there are certain rules that every way of life must [...]

By Adeola Adegboyega   I stumbled on a 1982 article from the Journal of American Culture by Christine Hope bearing the grand title “Caucasian Female Body Hair and American Culture.” The gist of the article is that U.S. women were browbeaten into shaving underarm hair by a sustained marketing assault that began in 1915. (Leg [...]