One Battle After Another’ Dominates 98th Oscars with Six Awards as Jessie Buckley, Michael B. Jordan Make History
The 98th edition of the Academy Awards delivered a night of historic wins and emotional tributes, with One Battle After Another emerging as the biggest winner after claiming the coveted Best Picture prize and finishing the evening with six awards.…
Fortune Omosola’s ‘Poetry Is Therapeutic’ Recasts Verse as a Tool for Survival
Nigerian poet and journalist Fortune Omosola says poetry is a lifeline that people can use to find their way in a digital yet inundated world. In his newly released book, Poetry Is Therapeutic, Omosola argues that verse is more than artful language. To…
Don Calls for Revival of Yoruba in Homes, Schools
Nigeria’s indigenous languages is swimming against a tide of neglect, indifference and poor appetite for the values attached to languages. A public affairs analyst and accountant, Dr. Bolutife Oluwadele, has therefore called for urgent reforms in…
Oscars 2026: Is This the Year of Record Shattering Nominations?
At this year’s Oscars, ‘Sinners’ is dominating the “Lead Pack” with 16 nods, but the real story is in the surprises and snubs, a cinematic clash between spectacle and sentiment, where a quiet Norwegian drama and a blistering vampire…
Before the Robot Came – A Poem by F.Omosola
Before the Robot Came With aluminum lanterns, we braved the night, Studying, dozing, giggling, Before dawn flushed our rooms And left us begging for more minutes. We sat on stories in the backyard, Leapt on broomsticks, Satisfied with…
Michael Jackson Biopic Finally Unveils Long-Awaited Trailer After Years of Delays
After years of stalled production, editing controversies, and distribution hurdles, the much-anticipated biopic of the late King of Pop, titled Michael, has finally released its first teaser trailer. The film, led by Lionsgate and directed by Antoine…
When the Seasons Speak Again – A Poem By Bolutife Oluwadele
It wasn’t the first snow, But the heavens opened today With a quieter kind of reverence A reminder that God still turns The pages of the year With the gentlest of hands. No thunder, no trumpet, Just flakes descending like soft scriptures,…
The Unknowing Architect – A Poem By Bolutife Oluwadele
The Unknowing Architect – I built a word of hollow bone, A feather-thought, a whispered tone, And set it sailing, light as air, A harmless ghost, without a care. It found no purchase on the cliff Of your strong mind, so firm and…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Honoured as First Recipient of Germany’s Felix Jud Prize for Defiant Thinking
Celebrated Nigerian novelist and public intellectual Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named the inaugural recipient of the Felix Jud Prize for Defiant Thinking, a distinguished German honour that recognises individuals who embody freedom of expression,…
George Clooney’s Jay Kelly: A Midlife Crisis Drama That Hits Close to Home
It is self-indulgent, this movie. At the Venice Film Festival this week, George Clooney unveiled Jay Kelly, a film that strikes a nerve with actors and audiences alike by confronting the messy, unglamorous terrain of midlife crisis. On the surface, the…