Simi Makes Adekunle Gold A “Sinner” In New Music Video
Afrobeat singer and songwriter, Adekunle Gold has just released a spanking new single – “Sinner” . The Afro-pop singer released the single today featuring New Orleans singer Lucky Daye. “Sinner” which sees Gold singing about his addiction to love interest, Sheba (reads Simi) was accompanied by a deserving vidoe with a cameo appearance from his […]
Court Orders DSS To Produce Detained Igboho Associates
A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Department of State Security Services (DSS) to produce the 12 aides of Yoruba Nation Fighter, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, who have been in their custody since the second of July, 2021. The DSS arrested Igboho’s associate after a raid on his resident in […]
LG Polls: Lagos Government Restricts Movement On Saturday
The Lagos State Government has announced the restriction of movement as it goes to polls for the local government elections bill for this weekend . The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotsho stated this in a statement issued on Thursday, noting that the movement restriction will be on Saturday, July 24th between 08:00 and […]
Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah’s Seriya and the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism
By Toyin Falola Since its inception, the works of literature that have emanated from the African scenery have been known to be art for life’s sake (utilitarian function), antithetical to some other literatures from the West. Generally, African artists, sculptors, painters, and even orators venture and aspire to project the realities of their immediate environment […]
A CONVERSATION WITH PROF. CARLSON ANYANGWE, PART 3
(This is the first report on the interview on “The War in the Cameroon” on July 18, 2021. With the number of views over 30,000 on seven platforms, it is clear that this is issue is of great interest. For its entire recording, see https://fb.watch/v/1Xu7uYhue/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzK81pf3F0A) REFLECTIONS ON SOME OF THE TOPICS THAT CAME […]
Africa: Devastating moments for us all
By Toyin Falola For anyone conversant with the African narrative, be they students of African history, representatives of foreign interests, news/information enthusiasts, or Africans themselves who have lived this experience, it is no secret that the continent has been a theatre for the expression of great human suffering. Africa, at least from the fifteenth […]
Benin Republic authorities interrogate Igboho, wife
Benin Republic authorities are interrogating embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho. According BBC Pidgin, Igboho and his wife, Ropo are with operatives of Brigade criminelle in Cotonou. After the interrogation, he is expected to appear before the Cour d’Appel in the city. The court is expected to debate on the international arrest […]
I welcome return of stolen African Arts, says Prof Abiodun
Rowland Abiodun is John C. Newton Professor of Art, the History of Art, and Black Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art (2014), What Follows Six Is More than Seven: Understanding African Art (1995); co-author of Yoruba: Nine Centuries of […]
Reject Attempts To Re-present Flawed National Water Bill, Groups Tell NASS
The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) and the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) have urged the National Assembly to reject attempts by the promoters of the stepped-down version of the National Water Bill to re-present it with the same contentious provisions in the hallowed chamber. […]
Gunmen Kill Two Police Officers In Enugu
Gunmen have killed two police officers at a check-point in Obeagu-Amechi area in Enugu Obeagu-Amechi in NAN reports that two police checkpoints in Enugu south LGA and Amagunze in Nkanu east LGA were attacked on Wednesday evening. A vehicle and a motorcycle were reportedly burnt during the attack. Daniel Ndukwe, spokesman of the Enugu police […]
