News Nigeria Culture: Nigeria: K-Pop Dance Competition Fires Up Nigerian Pop Culture
Camera flashes, reverberating Korean pop music and plastic hand clappers characterised the grand finale of the 8th K-Pop dance competition held last weekend in Lagos. The Korean wave swept through ...
News Nigeria Culture: Nigeria: Muslim Group, MURIC Writes Buhari, Calls for Ban On #BBNaijia
A Muslim group, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has written President Muhammadu Buhari, asking him to order a stop to the airing of the 2019 edition of the reality television show, Big Brother Naija, #BBNaijia.
News Nigeria Culture: ‘Farming’ Trailer: A Young Nigerian Boy Searches for Himself Inside Brutal Skinhead Culture
Lionsgate has unveiled the first trailer for British-Nigerian actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s feature directorial debut, “Farming,” a fascinating true story about a young black boy’s search for love ...
News Nigeria Culture: Nigeria’s Arts & Culture scene is manifold, global – Goethe Institut Director
Friederike Möschel is the Director of Goethe Institut Nigeria, a position she has occupied since 2017. In this interview conducted at her office in Lagos, Moschel offers insight into the cultural ...
News Nigeria Culture: A Debut Novel of Political and Personal Upheaval in Late-20th-Century Nigeria
Taking place in Nigeria during the 1980s and ’90s ... Their preachy vernacular and pop-culture diversions (“Citizen Kane,” “The Aristocats,” Chaka Khan and Luther Vandross) all become exercises in ...
News Nigeria Culture: Festival to promote Nigeria’s culture
Over 40,000 guests are expected at a three-day art and cultural exhibition by this year’s All Nigerian Festival (ANF). The festival, scheduled to hold at Muri Okunola Park, Victoria Island, is ...
News Nigeria Culture: Nigeria: Runsewe Hails Daily Trust President Cup Finals
Come June 15 and 16, close to 300 Professional and Amateur golfers will converge at the IBB Golf Club in Abuja to be part of the historical finals of the Daily Trust President Buhari Golf Cup. This will be happening after qualifying rounds were held in all the regions of the nation.
News Nigeria Culture: Democratic culture and the 2019 general elections in Nigeria (2)
Certain actions of President Muhammadu Buhari and his diehard party loyalists before the February elections indicate that he and APC stalwarts generally were not really committed to credible elections ...
News Nigeria Culture: Art review: Culture and the environment intersect in ‘Material Resources’
A quick glance around the room reveals a show of almost perplexing diversity: a ribbony wooden chair by Frank Gehry; a centuries-old ornate Persian battle helmet; a ball of Indigo from Nigeria ... ...
News Nigeria Culture: Nigerian culture: Interesting facts about Ijaw traditional marriage rites
With over 500 languages and over 300 tribes in Nigeria, one may be prone to think that these groups may have little or no unique qualities to them. Well, that is entirely incorrect as the beauty of ...
News Nigeria Culture: From Dubai to Abuja…Otunba Runsewe’s Bold Step Towards Rebranding Nigeria’s Culture, Tourism
When the discourse is about Nigeria’s culture and tourism, few names come to mind as prominently as that of Otunba Olusegun Runsewe to do justice to it. The Director-General of the National Council ...
