Nollywood raked in $2bn by August, says GOVT Roundtable proposes Entertainment Bank, City and Institute We’re organised, creatives tackle FG GOOD news came the way of Nigerian creatives last Thursday …
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Officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) are used to managing confrontations from traffic offenders. But in the riots which followed the recent #EndSARS protest, the agency was …
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NATIONAL: Nigerian govt has failed, says Soyinka as he presents first novel in nearly 50 years
by Joe Agbroby Joe Agbro 6 minutes read* “Nigeria is not at war, it is a war zone…” * Religion has become a problem, being used to “reduce our humanity” — Nobel laureate NOBEL laureate Professor Wole …
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Ofeimun at 70… Celebrating his poetry, humanism at LABAF
by Joe Agbroby Joe Agbro 8 minutes read‘What we’ve just had in Nigeria — #EndSARS — is like a rehearsal for what is actually going to happen; it would happen; there is no way we can escape …
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After private burial, JP Clark honoured at book festival
by Joe Agbroby Joe Agbro 7 minutes readJP Clark inaugurated Lagos Book & Art Festival, says Akinosho ON October 13, when the death of celebrated poet and playwright, Professor John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, was announced, the country was in …
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The New Yorker fires writer Jeffrey Toobin over masturbation
by Joe Agbroby Joe Agbro 1 minutes readAUTHOR and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has been fired by The New Yorker, where he had written for nearly 3 decades, over his error during a Zoom call. Last month, …
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French doctor to face charges over hydroxychloroquine claims
by Joe Agbroby Joe Agbro 2 minutes readA CONTROVERSIAL French professor, who touts the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment without evidence, will appear before a disciplinary panel charged with ethics breaches, an order of doctors …
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5G consultation ongoing, says NCC
by Joe Agbroby Joe Agbro 2 minutes readTHE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has published the Draft Consultation Document on the deployment of fifth-generation (5G) Mobile Technology in Nigeria. NCC Director, Public Affairs, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, said this …
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Europe COVID death toll tops 300,000 as winter looms and infections surge
by Joe Agbroby Joe Agbro 3 minutes readMore than 300,000 people have died of COVID-19 across Europe, according to a Reuters tally on Tuesday, and authorities fear that fatalities and infections will continue to rise as the …
Opens with the ‘Young Intellectuals Day’ by 3pm Over 30 events lined up By Joe Agbro THE 22nd edition of the Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF) kicks off today …