As rules of fame and relevance evolved, the country’s oldest beauty pageant refocused on female empowerment. Its 43rd Queen, Etsanyi Beauty Tukura, is committed to advocating for the girl child.
Before the construction of the Gidan Rumfa, the present palace of the Emir of Kano, the city’s seat of authority was in the Gidan Makama, located opposite it. Built in the 15th…
In the town of Daura, Katsina State, is located the Kusugu Well, whose history is tied to the origin of the Hausa kingdoms. Hausa lore has it that the Kusugu Well was…
In his second year at Baze University, Abuja, where he was studying electrical electronics engineering, Erik Obianozie encountered a familiar and frustrating problem. Three hours after he and his friends ordered food…
In La Femme Anjola (The Woman Anjola), the new crime thriller directed by Mildred Okwo, a young male stockbroker’s life, depicted by Nonso Bassey, goes off the rails when he meets the…
Daily Times, Nigeria’s oldest newspaper, has paid tribute to the late journalist Sam Nda-Isaiah, the founder and publisher of Leadership Newspapers. On Facebook, Daily Times shared a post describing Nda-Isaiah as “an…
Along Old Market Road in the centre of Katsina city, a five-minute walk from the Emir’s Palace, is Gobarau Minaret, a 15-metre structure influenced by Timbuktu architecture. The date of the building…
Every March or April, during Easter, the people of Arondizuogu in Imo State celebrate the Ikeji Festival, a four-day affair that has since spread to Aro communities across Igboland. It has been…
For over 500 years in the centre of the city of Kano, Kurmi Market has flourished. Located near the Emir’s Palace and the Central Mosque, it is one of the oldest markets…
In the Udi cultural zone of Enugu State, in the highland town of Nsude, there were, until the 1930s when they were first photographed and last confirmed intact, a set of circular…
The most prominent feature of Ikere-Ekiti, the second largest town in Ekiti State, are its steep hills and rocks. Three of them are storied: the Olosunta, Orole, and Ugele Hills. The first…
Many Bini people, of Edo State, consider the omoebe soup to be their best-known dish. A soup of herbs and spice, it is also known as the “black soup” due to both…