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Nigeria is going through a long, transitional period of democratic awakening, with the Fourth Republic as the first span of civilian rule.

A group of lecturers has condemned the federal government’s decision to suspend the use of Twitter in Nigeria. The federal government had...

The more creative option to salvage our broken nation, we are convinced, is to work for a positive change for the benefit of all, now and for the future.

Share Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US, Akinwumi Ogundiran, is the author of ‘The Yoruba: A New History.’ The remarkable book, which was published in the last quarter of 2020 by Indiana University Press, provides a new way and style for imagining and writing Yoruba history. The academic shares some findings that challenge extant beliefs and knowledge in this e-conversation about the book. Excerpts:   CONGRATS on the publication of this seminal and interesting work titled ‘The Yoruba:...

He left engineering for filmmaking and ended up as the filmmaker with the highest number of released movies. The man who went by the moniker Mr Prolific spent his last moments supervising an upcoming project, writes Vanessa Obioha In a year that has claimed lives and eroded the Christmas cheer that often accompanies the season, the death of one of Nollywood’s veteran filmmakers, Chico Ejiro devastated the Nigerian film industry. News of his death circulated on social media on Christmas Day morning, as many tried to mark the festive celebration that had a different tone due to the ongoing pa...