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Odd Inferno!

Odd Inferno!

The multi-million naira Ultima Studios in Lagos goes up in flames •The fire raging furiously. On Sunday 21 August, the ultra-modern studios used for the recording of two popular television shows –– Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and MTN Project Fame...
Super Shirts Maker

Super Shirts Maker

Davida Okpara is a big name in the fashion industry, especially for her brilliance in designing shirts for women • Davida Okpara. The blouse shirt is unarguably one of the most classic elements of a woman’s wardrobe; a simple staple celebrated by...
IBB Set To Remarry

IBB Set To Remarry

IBB Less than a year after losing his wife, Maryam, former military ruler and presidential hopeful in the 2011 general elections, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is prepared to take another wife. This disclosure was made by the gap-toothed, Minna-born...
Ex-Top Civil Servant Arrested For Patronising Abuja Prostitute

Ex-Top Civil Servant Arrested For Patronising Abuja Prostitute

A prostitute soliciting for men. It was a spectacle last week when the Federal Capital Territory Ministerial Task Force arrested a retired director in one of the federal ministries for allegedly patronising a commercial sex worker on a street in Abuja. The...
A Seminar To Inspire

A Seminar To Inspire

A seminar aimed at encouraging and inspiring upwardly mobile and career-focussed women holds in Lagos The maiden edition of BusinessDay Inspiring Woman Series, which held on 29 July at Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos, attracted quite a number of...
A Sacked Pastor’s New Beginning

A Sacked Pastor’s New Beginning

In the language of Esan, Edo State, from where Pastor Ituah Ighodalo’s father migrated to Ibadan, Oyo State, to marry a Yoruba woman from Ifewara in Osun State, names have meanings. In his ancestral land, Ituah means, “I am not in a hurry,” while...
Honour At Home For The Poet

Honour At Home For The Poet

Ogaga Ifowodo organises a poetry reading and performance in his hometown, Oleh in Delta State Though Ogaga Ifowodo traverses the nation’s literary and political space, he has not lost touch with his roots. This was proven on Saturday 24 July when the...
Victory For The Media

Victory For The Media

Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, defeats the Federal Government in court over the Nigerian Press Council Law Chief Ajibola Ogunsola. Another attempt by the Federal Government of Nigeria to put the media in a strait jacket and manipulate...
Beyond The ‘Pre-emptive’ Gesture

Beyond The ‘Pre-emptive’ Gesture

Pre-emptive, a stage play, is performed in Lagos as part of activities marking Prof. Wole Soyinka’s 76th birthday •A scene from Pre-emptive. The ignorance of the regular American on matters beyond their experience was on display at the MUSON Centre...
The Bard @ 70

The Bard @ 70

Eddie Aderinokun marks his 70th birthday by launching two new poetry collections •Eddie Aderinokun. Eddie Aderinokun may not have hogged the limelight like Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe, yet he is a distinguished writer in his own class. He is a man...
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