It is raining in the TED Theatre. The downpour has been summoned by the QTribe, a band of Lagos-based performers and rebels with a cause. The...
A literary festival panel can be a spectator sport. This was the case at the 2016 edition of Ake Festival – Nigeria’s (and arguably Africa’s) most...
Close neighbours are the Governor’s Office, the Legislature, the civil service compound, the headquarters of countless government agencies, the Ikeja City Mall and well-manicured public parks....
Forgive my title; this is not to compare both acts (you can remove your troll-ready fingers from the keyboard, D’banj STANS) but to put it to...
So it would seem doctors, engineers and lawyers aren’t going to inherit the Earth after all. At least not in Nigeria. In the past few years...
I am one of those people whom technology has made lazier. I don’t have to power on my laptop to find a song I just heard,...
As culturally sophisticated as Nigerians have become, when it comes to books, we have a boxed set of expectations that allows no room for curves, experiments...
“Now, we can breathe again,” with that statement, rolled eyes and a clucked tongue, a colleague of mine registered her feelings about the curtain fall on...
2014 has been a very interesting year. As it comes to an end, BellaNaija seeks to showcase a human interest segment, dedicated to looking back at...
Scarcely has the blood dried from the singed floors of Nyanya Car Park, has time mended the broken bodies injured in the first bombing. Scarcely have...
Customer service in Lagos, Nigeria is basically non-existent. Not a single week passes in which I do not have something to complain about. Anyone who knows...
AUGUST 1997 Father was, in his heyday, a bit of a treasure hunter. Mother told me one dark, quiet night when N.E.P.A had done that for...
Though we’ve exchanged soggy holiday messages; some nicked off the net, or just forwarded on from someone who sent us longish, appropriately emotional ones; said prayers...
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