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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Since the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, led other members of the Bankers’ Committee to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Federal Government for the handover of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, on February 14, 2021, there has been a renewed hope that government will look in the direction […]
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By Tunde Odesola Birth, breath and death; three seeds cohabiting in the same pod. Birth-breath-death: Sikiru Ayinde Balogun’s earthly journey in a winged chariot driven by fate, fuelled by freewill. Fatefully, Ayinde was born by a butcher father and a pepper-seller mother. Utterly, he had no say over the spermatic fluid that shot him […]
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Adieu, an ardent lover of theatre and a great actress Although she was born in humble and inauspicious circumstances in the rural Ilu Ola community of Kwara State on October 10, 1960, veteran Nollywood actress, Mrs. Folake Aremu, popularly known as ‘Orisabunmi’, had become one of the best known and beloved stars in the Yoruba […]
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Mrs. Akindele-Bello and Mrs. Abraham Nollywood stars Funke Akindele-Bello and Toyin Abraham currently stand as the two producers with the highest-grossing films with over N300 million in 2020. Mrs. Akindele-Bello’s ‘Omo Ghetto: The Saga’ and Mrs. Abraham’s ‘Fate of Alakada,’ each grossed over N100 million in cinemas after the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria released […]
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Another popular Yoruba actor, Folake Aremu, popularly known as Orisabunmi, has passed on. She died at the age of 60. The Kwara born actress dies four months after the death of her ex-husband, Jimoh Aliu, who was popularly known as Aworo. President of the Theatre Arts And Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN) Bolaji […]
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By Tunde Odesola Barrister wasn’t a stark illiterate. He wasn’t an academic either. But he created Fuji, a music brand that has swallowed various pre-existing Yoruba music such as Sakara, Apala, Awurebe, and paralysed erstwhile top-of-the-chart music, Juju. However, there are many ‘ifs and buts’ that could have changed the success story of Fuji since […]
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Evergreen Musical Company moves to preserve indigenous music By Banji Ayoola The late legendary comedian, Chief Moses Olaiya Adejumo, MON, popularly called ‘Baba Sala’, and variously described as father or pillar of Nigerian comedy, has been conferred with a post humus Life Achievement Award for his monumental contributions to the development of theatre and comedy […]
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