Interview Tejumola Olaniyan passed away on November 30, 2019, at the age of 60. His writing on drama, literature, popular music, and political cartooning redefined the contours of African literary and cultural studies. Indeed, his work has done no less than reconstitute the study of culture in Africa—what it
On This Day
Post-civil war Nigeria re-entered the world stage on this Sunday as the Second All-Africa Games kicked off in the new National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. The successful outing of the Games was a tribute to the resilience of post-colonial Africa in more than one respect. It was originally scheduled for Bamako,
On This Day
The first shipment of crude oil left Port Harcourt for Britain. The tanker load was sent to scientists at Shell and British Petroleum companies for analysis of its quality and blending properties. That was the last step in the two companies’ 21-year long search for oil in Nigeria which was
By The Numbers
The Nigerian passport is currently ranked 88th on the Henley Passport Index which compares visa requirement for 199 different passports and 227 different travel destinations. The Index provides global citizens and sovereign states a standard reference tool for assessing how a passport ranks on international mobility spectrum. A passport scores
By The Numbers
Diaspora Nigerians remitted $20.93b to the home country in 2024, which is, approximately one-third of all diaspora remittances to sub-Sahara Africa in the same period. Remittances also increased by nine percent compared to the previous year but even as it beats World Bank’s projection of two point three
Tejumola Olaniyan passed away on November 30, 2019, at the age of 60. His writing on drama, literature, popular music, and political cartooning redefined the contours of African literary and cultural studies. Indeed, his work has done no less than reconstitute the study of culture in Africa—what it is,
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Two of the nearly 250 electees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year have Nigeria to thank for the formative steps that steered their lives towards membership of this esteemed group of academics and other accomplished people. For Dr. Akinwumi Ogundiran of Northwestern University and Dr. Omolola
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