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Abstract Professional theatre practice in Nigeria, has, over the years, suffered serious neglect. Many reasons have been adduced for this comatose state of the theatre, ranging from lack of facilities, government support, and funding, as well as negative audience attitude to the profession, to the state of insecurity. It has created a situation where trained theatre artists find succour in other areas of endeavour to make a living, to the detriment of the theatre profession. In the midst of this development, the stand-up comedy genre has risen to be a veritable medium of live artistic entertainment. Starting with Opa Williams’ “Night of a Thousand Laughs,” the genre has blossomed to become a phenomenon. This paper traces the rise and development of the Stand-up Comedy in Nigeria and argues that the theatre could borrow a leaf and experience a turn-around, thus, ensuring meaningful development. In other words, the stand-up comedy genre, as it exists in Nigeria today, guarantees qua

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has condemned the killing of the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Lawan Andimi, by Boko Haram terrorists, describing it as cruel, inhuman and deliberately provocative. The retired general stated this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday. He regretted that “the terrorists killed the religious leader while giving signals of a willingness to set him free by releasing him to third parties.” He consoled the Christian community all over Nigeria, the government and people of Adamawa as well as the Bishop’s family over the sad loss of the man of God. He said the terrorists would continue to pay a heavy price for their actions and ”comprehensively be defeated by our determined armed forces”. The President urged nations of the world to end all support provided to the Boko Haram and the Isla

A Mr Patrick music talent manager, Patrick who initially signed Davido’s music artiste, Peruzzi to his record label named ‘Golden Boy Entertainment’ has opened the Pandora Box and it’s contents are not only bad for the eyes but also disturbing to the ears. Both parties have been going back and forth with verbal attacks on social media with tension escalating. (1) Davido’s hit song FIA was actually written and sang by Peruzzi who handed it over to his boss probably after being compensated with cash. So many hit songs of Davido have been trailed by similar rumours in the past. (2) The highly-publicized ‘Assurance’ song was probably written by Peruzzi also as Twitter users have been analysing the lyrics which share similarities with a certain tweet Peruzzi made in the past. (3) Peruzzi might have dated Chioma – Davido’s baby mama as claimed by Patrick who believes he ‘pimped her out’ to Davido after lying that they are cousins. (4) The strength of Davido’s love for Chioma m

No fewer than three persons including a boy were burnt to death in the pipeline explosion that erupted in the Abule Egba area of Lagos state. It was gathered that the explosion was due to the activities of vandals who allegedly ruptured the pipeline in a bid to steal fuel. The deceased boy among them was reportedly inside one of the nearby shops sleeping with his parents when the fire had started. He reportedly ran for safety when he noticed what was happening but unfortunately, he didn’t make it out alive. All the three dead bodies were evacuated into a Lagos State Emergency Health Service pick-up van to be deposited at the morgue. Not more than 10 houses were destroyed alongside the pipeline. Video Player