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80’s Afrobeat, 2000s Big 4, new Big 3: Tracing the three Eras of Nigerian Pop Dynasty
Every dynasty begins with a rhythm. In Nigeria, that rhythm has never belonged to one artist or one era—it has…
Hilda Baci’s Giant Jollof Attempt: Pot collapse, smoke, fire and the weight of expectation
Lagos had seen spectacles before. Concerts that shook its streets, political rallies that bent its traffic into knots, vigils that…
Ex-LP Lagos governorship candidate, Rhodes-Vivour joins ADC
Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Lagos during the 2023 elections, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has formally defected to the African…
Public grief, private pain: When stars lose loved ones and Nigerians mirror their mourning
Introduction Grief is usually private. It’s seen as an intimate, lonely experience shared within families and friends. But for celebrities,…
How Pastor Enoch Adeboye transformed a Prayer Camp into a Global Megacity
Night in the mid-1980s along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway was the kind of night that swallowed hope. Darkness pressed against the…
Deribe Palace: Golden mansion of Nigeria’s 1980s richest man Alhaji Mai Deribe
In the arid heart of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, stands a monument to opulence so extraordinary that it defies belief.…
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