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  By Toyin Falola As Obafemi Awolowo University holds its convocation this week, I began to reflect on its long-standing achievements. When the bricks were being set to establish the University of Ife, I believe many would have had high expectations and also lived to see those expectations rise and …

  Cecilia Okeke   Nigerian gospel artiste and worship leader, Cecilia Okeke, has released a new single titled Mercy Speaks. She has with this made yet another resounding contribution to the growing list of Nigerian gospel songs that have in recent years become common feature in Christian worship worldwide. Marked …

  By Toyin Falola You cannot be one rich man among your poor siblings and relations and not become poor. After all, you stole the destiny of six others to add to yours. Having made them poor, you must cater for them. Ogunde, my friend, built a house for his …

Janet Chinenye Eze is the author of two captivating books: Nnenna (a novel) and The Kayan of the Mata (short stories), both of which have found their home on the shelves of readers worldwide. Thanks to the esteemed Purple Shelves publishing house. In this interview, Ms Eze digs deep into the inner recesses …

  By Toyin Falola This November is a moment of glory for the Ondo Kingdom and its King, Oba Dr. Adesimbo Kiladejo, OFR, as he turns 70. November also marks his 17th installation ceremony as the Osemawe and Paramount Ruler of the Ondo Kingdom. It is a great honour for …

  By Toyin Falola I was at the University of Ilorin when the announcement was made that the Tinubu-led federal government would pay four of the eight months’ salaries when ASUU went on strike. I must confess that many people were happy, saying that they were heavily indebted and owed …

By Toyin Falola The dynamic city of Ile-Ife is located in the heart of the Yoruba community, where tradition gently intertwines with modernity, generating a complex tapestry of cultural resilience and dynamism. The historic Royal Dynasty exhibits a remarkable synthesis of ancestral traditions and modern innovations, managing the shifting sands …

    Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Thursday said that the groundbreaking of the proposed $100m African Film City project in Epe would be done before the end of October. He disclosed this during a news conference on the forthcoming 12th African International Film Festival (AFRIFF), at the …

  A Norwegian author Jon Fosse has been named the 2023 Nobel Prize winner in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday. Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, described Fosse as one of the most …

  By Olayinka Oyegbile A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness ~Robert Frost (A review of Lola Fabowale’s Nostalgia and Tears F’orile, Kraftgriots, Ibadan, 2023) Lola Fabowale’s Nostalgia and Tears F’orile, a debut collection of poems makes for easy reading …