Arts & Books

There are many things to like about this little book that purrs gently, ever so gently. The book exudes the quiet confidence of a writer properly centered in the beauty …

Certain songs are hostage-takers. They hold their victims in captivity and let them go only briefly when the song comes to an end…

Benson Idonije really loves highlife. At times his love becomes obsessive and begins to tamper with his aesthetic assessments…

The price to pay to be a novelist and visionary as Achebe states is a healthy reading culture among the youth…

Like narcotics and other drugs, millions are hooked on music. That’s why you have teenagers in the West whose behavorial abnormalities are traceable to heavy metal music with its violent lyrics…

Lagbaja! a soldier of culture, understands the authentic meaning of refreshing the traditional aesthetics, and handles it proficiently through modernisation and fusion with the sublime in urban and foreign elements…

Shame and condemnation to Ofunneka, to her parents, to Nigerian federal and state governments, including Nigerian legislators, all Nigerian mothers who kept silent…

I am not a fan of the Big Brother nonsense, and all such shows, like beauty pageants, where people are paid and cheered on to throw their honour and dignity …

The entertainment industry in Nigeria over the last 10 years show an upsurge of interest. The interest is basically of the influx of students into the sector in the areas …

For me Richard, Ofunneka and Tatiana are heroes. The BBA, beside the economic drive of the proprietors, had sought to change the way we behave hypocritically as a people…

Reality Shows are all the rage right now….I find them boring and totally pointless…

Babangida craves any opportunity to shout out and holler about his negative genius and perverted wisdom as if nothing else matters in a country of over 140million people…

Ene Oloja. Remember her? In the 80’s and 90’s she was the buxom beauty who starred as Zamaye in Cock Crow at Dawn and later played the sister to the …

Soyinka is Africa’s legendary intellectual but never before has he himself documented such large claims for his moral pre-eminence, his exemplary fulfilment of the intellectual’s mission in the African society …

Ordinarily, one should not be concerned when a musician is exhibiting his God given talent for humanity, more so when he can earn a living from his creative talent. However, …

I think that if Nollywood wants to attract the needed synergy, it must put its house in order. I am looking forward to the days when Nigeria will take the centre stage …