Celebrating Nollywood, Icons & Rising Stars, Moët Film Gala
Moët & Chandon has long since enjoyed a special relationship with the big screen, since the early days of Hollywood, supporting several hundred films since the 1930s, ranging from small...
View ArticleMaintaining Mental Sanity In The COVID-19 Pandemic
As part of efforts to contain the spread and devastation of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, had on Sunday, March 29, 2020, ordered a total shutdown of Lagos,...
View ArticleThe Heroism Of Nigeria’s Altruistic Health Workers In The Pandemic
Countless wars have been fought between enemies with the winner perhaps brandishing the most terrible weapon on its visible enemy. The victor annihilating and showing the vanquished his superiority....
View ArticleCOVID-19: What Will The Hungry Do?
“LIKE it or not, people will die of hunger than the virus itself. Hunger will kill many before COVID-19 finds them. Some will survive COVID-19 and die from hunger. To eat at this present time is war. I...
View ArticleTackling Insecurity Now And After COVID-19
“Safety and security are the most basic jobs of government. I understand that - both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime and also as someone who deployed in uniform...
View ArticleA-Q: Relentless God's Engineering
Just before I spoke to A-Q sometime in April, I read an article in which he was described as relentless: having consumed his music for more than nine years, I knew that description was apt. His body of...
View ArticleThis Is How Covid-19 Will Change Us Forever
Towards the end of 2020, I had great plans about a regular column: 2020 Vision Presented By The Guardian. Like many others, I had so many positive visions for the new decade, not only my own ideas, but...
View ArticleCharles Okpaleke: A Walk Down The Classics Lane
In the early 1990s, a Nigerian businessman, Kenneth Nnebue, had just shipped in empty videocassettes from Taiwan. To hasten the sales of the cassettes, the business-minded Nnebue decided to write...
View ArticleEmmanuella Samuel: Africa’s Comedy Princess
Some days, you have to work hard till you get noticed, other days, luck finds you Emmanuella Samuel was just five years old and on a family holiday when she partook in a comedy skit that would shoot...
View ArticleSinach: Growing A Spiritual Edifice
Way Maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness, my God that is who you are introduces Sinach’s Way Maker. Viewed over 150 million times on her channel alone, translated to other...
View ArticleRape Culture: More Than Just Another Conversation
On July 15, 2018, The Guardian Life wrote a cover titled, “Countering The Rape Culture in Nigeria”. In the cover, we argued for the need to understand consent. Consent, we wrote, “should not be assumed...
View ArticleJune 12: "Clapping With One Hand" - Hafsat Abiola-Costello
The celebration of June 12 as a national holiday began at a time of great social unease in Nigeria. Like the painting on a canvass, the mural throws up different perspectives and holds out varied...
View Article“Black & White Images That Matter” - Anita Kouassigan
"The United Colours of Black & White images that matter" is what springs to mind for Anita Kouassigan. She commissioned Tobi Karim to describe how UK-based Nigerian photographer, Misan Harriman,...
View ArticleItoro Eze-Anaba: Unlearning Sexual Violence
In 2003, Itoro Eze-Anaba was working with an organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project, when she was approached by a young married lady, a victim of domestic violence, who narrated her ordeal...
View ArticleMo Abudu: Africa’s Foremost Storyteller
In the course of history, Africa has been viewed from the perspective of the West, whose lens is focused mostly on the problems in the continent; poverty, famine and corruption. It was this subjective...
View ArticleJosh2Funny: A Trend At A Time
At first glance, Josh Alfred is your average Joe and you may even easily forget his face in a crowd. However, one cannot say the same for his comic character, Josh2Funny. When Josh walks into The...
View ArticleOn Racism: Two Distinct Narratives
On the 7th of July PepsiCo, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors had elected Segun Agbaje as an independent member of its Board. His appointment marks, in all likelihood, the first time a...
View ArticleMayorkun: The Mayor Reigns
Called Mayor of Lagos by many, the talented and funny musician walked into the Guardian building with his mask on. Dressed in a simple brown short, blacktop, a jacket-shirt that matches with the short,...
View ArticleOrondaam Otto: Impacting Africa Through Education
A National Youth Service Corps member, Orondaam Otto, had applied to over 150 organisations soliciting donations to kick-start his vision. Not one organisation thought his idea was good enough to...
View ArticleBeing Nse Ikpe-Etim
“Look at me, Look at me. I am the mother of three kids and you say this fat thing from Lesotho is what is meant to be my rival? This is no competition Ken, it isn’t. If this is it, You have failed!”...
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