Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has met with the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, over looted Benin artifacts that are to be returned from abroad. Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, the governor said the state government in collaboration with partners had completed arrangements to set […]
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The Consulate-General of Nigeria in New York has taken custody of three Benin and Ife artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York. The Director-General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Prof. Abba Tijjani, received the artifacts from the museum in company of the Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Ambassador […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, on Tuesday, inaugurated the International Centre For Yoruba Arts and Culture at the University of Ibadan. The Vice President, in his address at the event, said that COVID-19 and climate change were already disrupting life but said lessons to cope with these […]
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Wole Soyinka (Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP) By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu My studies at Great Ife under Prof Wole Soyinka got off on a beery note. I was with my classmates in Soyinka’s house for practical lessons on television production when I told the future Nobel Laureate’s steward, the Ghanaian lad Francis, to […]
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The Association of Nigeria Theatre-Arts Practitioners (ANTP) and the Ibadan based Curator, Tunde Odunlade Arts and Culture Connexions have expressed willingness to partner with the Oyo State Government in continuation of its campaign to promote Yoruba cultural values in the State. They both held separate meetings with the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. […]
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Films get nominations Tunde Kelani and Jade Osiberu’s film, Ayinla, has joined 44 others to make the nomination list of the 2021 Africa Movie Academy Awards(AMAA). Somalian hit film, The Gravediggers wife, and Funke Akindele-Bello’s ‘Omo Ghetto: The Saga’ also received multiple nominations. ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’ received the most nominations with 10, including nominations in […]
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EDO State Government has announced a planned state burial for late music maestro, Sir Victor Uwaifo, who passed on on August 28. This was contained in a statement in Benin City, yesterday by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr Osaigbovo Iyoha, which said that government is tidying up arrangements with the family of […]
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Benin City based Nigerian artist, Mr Enotie Ogbebor, has been featured in The New York Times. The founder of Nosona Studios wrote on his Facebook wall saying: “I got featured in the The New York Times. They were made to tell stories, to keep memories, and to hand over all these stories and memories from […]
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By Oyeyinka Oludayisi Fabowale Helendale Suites in highbrow Agodi neighbourhood, Ibadan hosted a select audience of journalists, literary critics and arts buffs to a reading performance of Prof Femi Osofisan’s latest play, ‘MEDAYE’: A Re-Reading for the African Stage of EURIPIDES’ MEDEA. The performance, a collaboration between the foremost dramatist on one hand and Prof. […]
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Neil Curtis, Head of Museums and Special collections, with one of the Benin bronze depicting the Oba of Benin at The Sir Duncan Rice Library, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. (University of Aberdeen via Reuters) The University of Aberdeen in Scotland is to return a Benin bronze sculpture to Nigeria, saying it was acquired […]
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