News From Nigeria

The Eyo festival, also known as Adamu Orisa, is a communal event, a week long Opabata show enacted so that the Orisa Adamu may welcome the recently departed into the spirit world.  The appointed head of the festival is the ...

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The Lagos State Government has released a press statement accusing promoters of the movie ‘Gangs of Lagos’ of marketing a mockery of the heritage of Lagos. The statement posted on their state government’s official website reads: “Lagos State Government has ...

Source France is considered the cultural home of bread baking. In fact, French bakeries are such a quintessential part of the nation’s history that French President Emmanuel Macron ensured the baguette was given UNESCO heritage status in 2022. Unfortunately, skyrocketing costs are shuttering small ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new date for the commencement of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The UTME which was earlier scheduled to commence on April 29, would now start on April 25, ...

Dele Alake who’s the Special Adviser on Communications to President-elect Bola Tinubu, has reacted to the open letter Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie wrote to US President Joe Biden, questioning his congratulatory message to President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Chimamanda had in ...

The Vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has declined the request of Prof. Wole Soyinka for a one-on-one debate on the result of the February 25 presidential election. Prof. Wole Soyinka requested the debate while condemning Baba-Ahmed’s ...

May I seize this opportunity, by the way, to condemn the sanctions imposed on Channels Television, which anchored the performance of the LP candidate? Oh yes, could these rabid parochial minds of easy excitation also kindly stop flattering themselves that ...

A hypothetical question!If Joe Biden wakes up one day and called Buhari to inform him that he has misfired the minuteman 3 (atomic bomb) and that he has lost control but still have control of it for two coordinates. The ...