The Legend’s Nite, according to the organisers – Cloud 9 – comes up on August 27at Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos. The event, as announced in a press conference two weeks ago at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, will feature African Legends such as Salif Keita from Mali, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, Yvonne Chaka Chaka…
The UEFA Champion’s League, which was formerly the ‘European Cup’, was originally a knock-out tournament open only to the Champions of Europe’s Domestic League. The winner was then rated the European Club Champion. The League was introduced in 1955, it was organized by the Union of European Football Association (UEFA), from which the League got…
Kelechi Promise Iheanacho is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays in the forward line for Premier League club, Leicester City, and the Nigeria national team. Iheanacho was born in Owerri, Imo State of Nigeria. As a youth, he represented Taye Academy in Owerri. His performance for Nigeria in 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup led to…
Legends Annual Nite The Nigerian city has remained a dull environment for too long, but it is soaring back to life, and the situation suggests that everybody is ready to make it happen. Last Tuesday, May 18, the signals were all visible when legends of African music converged at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, physically, others through…
Artistes Who Grew Up With TV Series 3 When ‘Guitar Boy,’ Sir Victor Uwaifo, announced to the world in September 2018 that: “I have just bagged my Ph.D from the University of Benin, Glory be to God”, my mind went back to 50 years ago when I first met the legendary musician as a curious…
The socio-economic situation of Nigeria is currently chaotic, and this is not the best of times for government agencies that are saddled with regulatory actions on behalf of the state. Even as prices skyrocket, pockets are ‘dry’. Tension reigns politically as the bandits daily rub salts on our injuries. Objective appraisals of actions and inactions…
The last part of Julie Coker’s reflections as a pioneer staffer of WNTV. She spoke with Ayo Babajide who is also one of the WNTV veterans. Enjoy… I have to thank God that I was created the way God wants me to be. I dabbled into drama and I actually acted in “Dinner with the…
Julie Coker, a great broadcaster and beauty queen, recently had a fun-filled interview with AYO BABAJIDE, unarguably one of Nigeria’s best camera men and a veteran of WNTV-NTA ‘working school.’ Enjoy… EARLY LIFE As against various speculations, I was not born in Lagos, I was born actually in Warri to an Itsekeri mother and a…
An insight into the Radio Nigeria Network Newscast experience of one of the pioneers in the industry, the famous News Magazine programme presenter, Mr Tayo Adebayo, now a retired venerable of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion. Mr Tayo Adebayo was born into the famous Onibudo family of Kudeti, in Ibadan. He had his primary…
The analysis of the copyright struggle in Nigeria elicits comedy, painful comedy. As a strong supporter, I have watched the comedy of the struggle symbolized by “genuine” professional friends, playing politics with a good source of their means of livelihood. There is no point going into the reasons behind such politics but every evidence points…
