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Share The creative sector continues to lose some of its best to the cold clutches of death. IT’S not been a good week in art house with the Grim Reaper continuing from where it left off in December. A former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors and Minister of State for Education, Professor Jerry Agada and prolific movie director, Chico Ejiro, were some of the high-profile departures from the creative sector in the last month of 2020. But despite prayers for a halt to the deaths, two other eminent art personalities passed days apart during the week. Veteran journalist and former...

Views: Visits 12 And Jimanze Ego-Alowes died from liver cancer at 62 before we could hatch his next-level proposal. A prolific author, he described himself on his Twitter handle as a “journalist, poet and writer with a passion for new knowledge and human development.” He was the founding Director of The Brace Institute, a Lagos-based think tank; and founder of a fledgling civil society advocacy group, Minority Rights Defense Initiative, MRDI; and Publisher of The Stone Press Ltd., with which he reissued his remarkable 2006 book, How Intellectuals Underdeveloped Nigeria and Other ...

ON THE GO Bayelsa airport ready for commercial flights, awaits final approval, says Diri Douye Diri, governor of Bayelsa, says the state airport is ready for commercial flights.Advertisement He said this on Wednesday during a visit to the airport facility. The Nigerian Civil Aviation... Kidnapping: Ogun approves employment of security personnel for schools The Ogun government has announced the approval for the employment of security operatives for public schools in the state.Advertisement Dapo Abiodun, the state governor, disclosed this on Wednesday when he... LEAP Africa ap...

For NCDC, CDC and WHO. For people like Chikwe Ihekweazu, Onyema Ogbuagu and Anthony Fauci. For names like Corona Chiazor, Quarantine Folorunsho, and Lockdown Mailafia. Palliatives and handouts. Zoom and Google Hangouts. For when the popular vote and the electoral college are in sync. For outgoing Donald Trump and incoming Joe Biden. For the sanctity of democracy. Thank you for Nigeria and its golden jubilee celebration. For retaining the prize for the poverty capital of the world. For taking the third position for the most terrorized country in the world. For being “customer dada” on corr...

Vanguard News Actors plan health workshop to stem sudden deaths among members On Kindly Share This Story: The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has reiterated it’s commitment to the welfare of members to address incessant deaths among Nigerian artists. The Guild’s President, Emeka Rollas, make the remarks during the end of year get-together organised for members in Lagos on Friday. Rollas said the association would begin this life-saving measure by organising in-house health workshops across all chapters of AGN. He said that the measure became necessary as the increase in deaths of major pra...