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By Sumaila Umaisha The popular jingle, “If it is not Panadol it is not the same thing as Panadol” makes...
Giving home to the vagrants of the North: Six years of Poetic Wednesdays in promoting poetry
I love to see and approach poetry as a mystical adventure, a metaphysical inquisition that leaves me asking questions, not...
Untitled – a poem by Jamila Musa
I will pick a chalk of time Tread every path Write on the dark reality Wherein my brothers toil the...
Dreams of Rio animate Ivory Coast’s Popo Carnival
Men beating drums and blowing ox horns sounded the arrival of the king of Ivory Coast's Aboure people, who waved...
Disregard boycott of Zuma Film Festival by MOPPAN, NFC urges stakeholders
The Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) has urged film stakeholders to disregard the boycott of the ongoing Zuma Film Festival by...
Uthman Taha: The Calligrapher of the Holy Qur’an
I must celebrate him for he has given me my most reliable companion for the past 33 years. This is...
Adegoke Adelabu – Penkelemesi (Peculiar Mess)
Gbadamosi Adegoke Adelabu (3 September 1915 – 25 March 1958) was a prominent personality in the politics of Ibadan city...
FG clarifies National Theatre renaming
The Federal Government has clarified that it is not re-naming the entire Lagos National Theatre complex, built in 1976 to...
Books: My latest prized acquisition
My bibliophilic thirst took me to a bookshop in Abuja this morning. I went to buy a book that I...
The Muezzin Cries
the muezzin cries during adhan & the mosque died into the subtlety of grieving carnations how do...