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MUSON hosts Oparamanuike’s Don Pasquale

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WATCHING classical music performance is an elitist pastime, you may quarrel with that reality, but, it is the truth, no wonder that it is often called the ‘Music of the Masters’. For  those who love classical music, there is no need to travel to watch the New York Philharmonic  Orchestra or travel to Germany to […]
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The writer in Airtel’s Oparah

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Getting Emeka Oparah, the Director, Corporate Communications and CSR at Airtel Nigeria, a telecoms service provider to sit down for an interview is no mean task. He’s a passionate workaholic. ButAgozino Agozino, however, discovered that out of office, Oparah, who is known for his trademark well-trimmed white beard, is also a consummate writer “Please I […]
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Femi Kuti, from Lagos to London

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Very few youths, usually, take after their parents in the choice of career  and keep the legacy running, even after the demise of such parents. Femi Kuti belongs to this class and he keeps the memory of the Afro beat music maestro, the ‘Abami Eda’, Anikulapo-Kuti alive. NKECHI CHUKWU, who watched Femi’s recent show in […]
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Artist as an environmentalist

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  As he prepares for his new solo exhibition, The Big bang, the Pandora and Flight Lieutenant, environmental artist, Muraina Akeem, tells AGOZINO AGOZINO how some of his environmental works came into being Walking into his compound at 3 Alomo Close, Iju Ishaga, Agege, Lagos, the first compelling thing that grips your imagination is the […]
Art News

Biafra genocide: Between objectivity and denials

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Biko Agozino, a Professor of Sociology and African Studies, Virginia Tech, reviews a new book on the civil war, written and edited by Nigerian scholars, that is generating much heat in US and warns that it’s high time that intellectuals admit the objective history of the Biafran genocide   Writing The Nigeria-Biafra War, edited by Toyin […]
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Chukwu exhibits UNIBEN art school stuff

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Sunday Chika Chukwu, a final year student of the Department of Fine and Applied Art, University of Benin (UNIBEN), is yet to graduate but he is already showing the creativity to behold in his career. For any art collector, who has an eye for good sculpture, then, Chukwu is one artist that such collector is […]
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Emore siblings steps out with I am

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ART runs in the family of the Emores in various genres. Oghenemeyoma Emore is a 19-years old young graduate girl who has passion for visual arts while her elder brother, Oritsegbemi, who is 21 years old, is gifted with photography and documenting scenes.    Their creative spirit is blossoming into a full-time career for them […]
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In Nzeogwu’s town, Queen Mother is key

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Whenever one mentions a monarch, it readily comes to mind that you talking about a man. The reverse is, however, the case in Okpanam town, where the Queen Mother, the Omu, wields much power.  Agozino Agozino writes Locating the Omu of Okpanam and Anioma in her hometown, which shares boundary with Asaba, the Delta State […]
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The writer, doctor in Nwadiogbu

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Lagos-based medical doctor, Nathaniel Nwadiogbu, forges ahead as he publishes more novel Nicholas Okeugo write While in the secondary school, Nathaniel Nwadiogbu’s  literary instinct progressed to writing of plays and, this, did not prevent him from studying Medicine and becoming a medical doctor later in life. With his play, entitled, ‘My Greatest
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Don shows impact of investment on employee innovation

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Dr. Hyacinth Nwachukwu, a don and literary writer maps out the surest routes to employee innovation in the manufacturing industry in a new book.  Okey Osuji offers review It is not every time that people get the opportunity to read well-researched academic dissertations of post-graduate students in fulfillment of a doctoral degree (PhD). Even at […]
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Behold the champions from Sophia

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Students of Sophia Group of Schools (SGS), Lagos, have confirmed that they always live up to the meaning of the  Greek word, which the school was named after, ‘Sophia’, that means ‘wisdom’. The students held parents and other well-wishers spell- bound with impressive theatrical and music presentations during their 31st valedictory service/speech and prize giving […]
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Building tomorrow today

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Reading the book, Building My Tomorrow Today, engages one to have an action plan in life. As it were, there is no genuine success, except being laborious as early discovery of one’s dream gives one a direction in life. The author, Peterclaver Egbochuo, a journalist, clearly spells out the rudiments of achieving that tomorrow, especially […]
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Tompolo, army bicker over missing Egbesu sword

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The alleged stealing of the Egbesu deity sword by the soldiers who invaded the community to rout the militants blowing up oil pipelines keeps generating  fury among the people. Now, they insist that they want their god and other lost memorabilia backAGOZINO AGOZINO writes  IN recent time, the Gbaramatu Kingdom/Army controversy over who stole the […]
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Maxwell Oditta: One death too many

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Maxwell Oditta, my dear editor and friend, I’m still devastated by the news of your untimely death on Saturday, July 2, 2016. It’s unbelievable. This is one death too many. This is one death, just like that of many hundreds of journalists in Nigeria, that might have been prevented, had some of the publishers/’punishers’ been […]