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GAB Opens at Thought Pyramid Art Centre in Lagos Griots and Bards, GAB, a monthly village square of Spokenword poetry, visual arts, other forms of arts expression and culture conversations will open at Thought Pyramid Art Centre, Ikoyi,  Lagos, every Thursday of the month. The first edition of GAB will be on the 29th of November, 2019 by 6PM.  The event curated by Adebola Afolabi (REZthaPoet), a poet and business consultant, and Temi Ogunmokun (ChocolateOnAir), a broadcaster and logophile, is a project of Beige and Crow, a content marketing and management firm. GAB hopes to rekindle the culture of storytelling,…

He was known as A Right Honourable Gentleman and the Golden Voice of Africa. He was Nigeria’s only Prime Minister, a true gentleman who was killed in the Nzeogwu-led coup of January 15 1966. 52 years after, Tafawa Balewa still commands a lot of charisma and respect nationwide. So many monuments have been named after him. But not many know his final resting place. The Lagosian brings you exclusive pictures from the final resting place of this legend from Bauchi with love.

In swift response to the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Federal Government held an emergency meeting with the union leadership led by the union’s President- Professor Biodun Ogunyemi in the early hours of Tuesday. After the three hours long meeting, the Federal Government again failed to come to conclusion with the demands of the academics, the implication of which suggests that the indefinite suspension of activities by lecturers in all public owned universities will continue if the imbroglio is properly attended to.

By Sola Ojewusi in Dubai Every new day, Dubai surprises you with avant garde innovations. Always on their toes, the rulers of this amazing city would never spare any detail nor hold back anything to keep making Dubai attractive to tourists.  Think of anything extraordinary, outlandish, extravagant and eye-popping – minders of Dubai Department of Tourism would always strive to make it happen: The magnificent Burj Khalifa, for now the World’s Tallest Building, the Dubai Mall, largest shopping complex in the world, Dubai World, The Palms, Special Cities like Media City, Internet City, Maritime City etc. Another addition to…

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT The world just witnessed one of the great evenings of superb football as Arsenal and Liverpool shared the spoils in a keenly contested thriller at the Arsenal Homeground. Milner made it 0-1 in favour of Liverpool on the 61st before Lacazette evened things on the 82nd minute. LINE UP Arsenal: Leno; Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Kolasinac; Torreira, Xhaka; Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Aubameyang: Lacazette Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson; Fabinho, Milner, Wijnaldum; Salah, Firmino, Mane More stories later.

By  Abu-Ubaida Ibrahim Kuna IT was with mixed feelings that the people of Gombe State celebrated this year’s Democracy Day anniversary. In the past seven years, Gombe people have known social peace, economic progress and visionary leadership under Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo.