Category: Social – Relaxation
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Television in Nigeria was anticipated by Adekanbi, editor of Eko Akete in a 1924 publication when, in reaction to Colonel Malone, chairman of the Radio Association’s prediction of the emergence of the television he noted; “We rather should leave our reader to imagine a world in which for instance, one can remain in Lagos and look…
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Fatai Olayiwola Olagunju; Legendary highlife maestro popularly called Fatai Rolling Dollar. A guitarist, singer and exponent of native thumb piano – Agidigbo, he was the oldest artist on the Nigerian music circuit when he died on June 12, 2013. Fatai’s music career spanned decades and till the very end, he was an electrifying presence on…
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Dele MOMODU, Journalist and founder of Ovation, in 1996, a celebrity style magazine covering mostly West Africa, which features high life parties, and properties essentially with pictures. Dele Momodu is for several decades a successful writer and publicist, involving also in politics and activism at different times. Momodu was the head of MKO Abiola’s media…
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Amebo in the Nigerian popular culture means gossip and is often used to qualify mostly a lady who takes undue interest in other people’s affairs. Amebo was the name of a character in The Village Headmaster, a popular Nigerian Television series that ran from 1968 to 1991. The cast, Ibidun Allison, who in the series…
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Oluwashina Akanbi Peters, popularly known as Sir Shina Peters (SSP) was born 30th May 1958 in Ogun State. SSP’s childhood was like most children’s, he had strict parents who wanted the best for him, he attended Ebenezer African Church School, Ijoko-Ota Ogun State for his primary education and Baptist Boys High School, Olivet Baptist High…
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Tiwa Savage, Afro pop singer was born in Lagos in February 1980 as the youngest and the only girl among male siblings. At the age of eleven, she was moved with family to London, where as a fresh migrant kid, she had attempted to integrate into the circle to which she was endeared in High…
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Ayo opon, or Jonda, is a two-player African board game of strategy, popular among Yoruba people in the Western part of Nigeria, and Igbos in the East, where it is called nchorokoto. Two persons play in the Ayo game, with the board, a plank of wood consisting of two rows of pits containing seeds of…
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Olabisi Ajala, popularly known as “Ajala the traveller”, was the gregarious globe-trotting Nigerian who, in a one-man odyssey which began at his twenty-seventh year, met many leaders of the world and supposedly visited eighty-seven countries, mostly on a bicycle. Ajala, born in 1930 in Ghana, was hailed in the Ebenezer Obey’s popular song of the…
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Polo is a team sport played on horse backs. Its objective is to score goals against the opponent team by driving the small ball into the opposing team’s goal using the mallet, a heavy stick with a thick end. Although the Polo game was said to have begun in ancient Iran during the glorious times…