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It was a black Wednesday for the Nollywood industry as the ace Nollywood actress, Moji Olaiya was buried amidst anguish and encomiums at the Ebony Vaults, situated inside Ikoyi Cemetery, Lagos. The funeral rites of the late Nollywood actress progressed into an interment on Wednesday morning at the Ikoyi Cemetery with many Yoruba filmmakers, actors…
June 7, 2017
I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in…
June 4, 2017
About 100,000 black GIs were stationed in the UK during the war. Inevitably there were love affairs, but US laws usually prevented black servicemen from marrying. So what happened to the children they fathered? Fiona Clampin met two such children in Dorset, now in their seventies, who have not given up hope of tracing their…
May 21, 2017
ANTHONY JOSHUA's next fight is unlikely to match his knockout victory over Wladimir Klitschko for sheer gun-slinging. Joshua beat Wladimir Klitschko in a stunning 11th-round stoppage at Wembley Stadium to become unified heavyweight champion. At least, the boxer himself does not want to have to get up off the canvas as he did against…
May 4, 2017
In between all the dispiriting news about the world crumbling all around us, we learn that Nigerian student, Imelme Umana, class of Harvard Law School ’18, has become the first Black woman elected President of Harvard’s Law Review. Though it took Harvard 130 years longer than it should have, the news of her extraordinary accomplishment…
January 31, 2017
Stephanie del Valle of Puerto Rico was crowned Miss World 2016 on Sunday, edging out runners-up from the Dominican Republic and Indonesia, and beauties from around the globe. Del Valle, 19, is a brown-eyed brunette student who speaks Spanish, English and French, and hopes to get into the entertainment industry. Crowned by Miss World 2015…
December 20, 2016
 Celebrating one’s existence on Earth is not by chronological years, but by what the person has been able to do to impact the lives of people positively. Many residents of Oyo State have likened what the Senator Abiola Ajimobi-led government is doing in its urban renewal programme to a Copernican revolution. One cannot but…
December 19, 2016
Mr.  Ayo Balogun, popularly known as ‘Wizkid’ has cancelled his highly anticipated homecoming concert following a firm warning from his team of medical officers to take some rest. The event which is billed to take place at Eko Convention Centre on December 30 this year, is to be followed by another show at the New…
December 9, 2016
Professor Felicia Adetowun Ogunsheye, nee Banjo, the first female professor in Nigeria clocks 90years today. She was born on the 5th of December, 1926 in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Her younger brother was the late Colonel Victor Adebukunola Banjo, a hig-ranking officer in the Biafran Army who was later executed by the late…
December 5, 2016
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It was a black Wednesday for the Nollywood industry as the ace Nollywood actress, Moji Olaiya was buried amidst anguish and encomiums at the Ebony Vaults, situated inside Ikoyi Cemetery, Lagos. The funeral rites of the late Nollywood actress progressed into an interment on Wednesday morning at the Ikoyi Cemetery with many Yoruba filmmakers, actors…
June 7, 2017
I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in…
June 4, 2017
About 100,000 black GIs were stationed in the UK during the war. Inevitably there were love affairs, but US laws usually prevented black servicemen from marrying. So what happened to the children they fathered? Fiona Clampin met two such children in Dorset, now in their seventies, who have not given up hope of tracing their…
May 21, 2017
ANTHONY JOSHUA's next fight is unlikely to match his knockout victory over Wladimir Klitschko for sheer gun-slinging. Joshua beat Wladimir Klitschko in a stunning 11th-round stoppage at Wembley Stadium to become unified heavyweight champion. At least, the boxer himself does not want to have to get up off the canvas as he did against…
May 4, 2017
In between all the dispiriting news about the world crumbling all around us, we learn that Nigerian student, Imelme Umana, class of Harvard Law School ’18, has become the first Black woman elected President of Harvard’s Law Review. Though it took Harvard 130 years longer than it should have, the news of her extraordinary accomplishment…
January 31, 2017
Stephanie del Valle of Puerto Rico was crowned Miss World 2016 on Sunday, edging out runners-up from the Dominican Republic and Indonesia, and beauties from around the globe. Del Valle, 19, is a brown-eyed brunette student who speaks Spanish, English and French, and hopes to get into the entertainment industry. Crowned by Miss World 2015…
December 20, 2016
 Celebrating one’s existence on Earth is not by chronological years, but by what the person has been able to do to impact the lives of people positively. Many residents of Oyo State have likened what the Senator Abiola Ajimobi-led government is doing in its urban renewal programme to a Copernican revolution. One cannot but…
December 19, 2016
Mr.  Ayo Balogun, popularly known as ‘Wizkid’ has cancelled his highly anticipated homecoming concert following a firm warning from his team of medical officers to take some rest. The event which is billed to take place at Eko Convention Centre on December 30 this year, is to be followed by another show at the New…
December 9, 2016
Professor Felicia Adetowun Ogunsheye, nee Banjo, the first female professor in Nigeria clocks 90years today. She was born on the 5th of December, 1926 in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Her younger brother was the late Colonel Victor Adebukunola Banjo, a hig-ranking officer in the Biafran Army who was later executed by the late…
December 5, 2016
