Category: Art, Media & Entertainment

Eleven year old Nigerian pupil, Onyemaechi Christian Yobo has been recognised by Cartoon Network and it’s partners, DSTV as the winner of Imagination Studios Art Competition 2016

Abosi Ogba wins the Niyi Akinmolayan script writing contest with his ‘Room 315’

Mohammad Musa has won the 7th edition of the 2016 Korean-Nigerian Drawing Competition (Gold Prize) for primary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria, held at the Korean Cultural Centre, Abuja.

Mohammad Musa from Science Primary School, Kwali won a mini-laptop at the 7th edition of the Korean-Nigerian Drawing Competition.

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Agharese Emokpae aka A’rese Wins the Inaugural Edition of The Voice Nigeria

Business journalist and presenter Didi Akinyelure has been awarded this year’s BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, which aims to celebrate African journalism and reward exceptional talent

The CEO, Brandzone Consulting LLC, Chizor Malize, has received the prestigious Marketing Personality of the Year Award in honor of her dynamic and innovative work in the branding and marketing sphere at the 2016 Marketing Edge Brands and Advertising Excellence Awards

The sixth edition of the Prix Canson Prize, which recognizes achievements of international artists who work with paper as their principal medium, was awarded to Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby.

Los Angeles–based Njideka Akunyili Crosby makes intimate paintings on paper by intricately collaging together photographs transferred to paper with patches acrylic, charcoal, and other materials.

As winner of the Prix Canson Prize, Njideka Akunyili Crosby will receive a solo show and €10,000 (about $11,300) worth of Canson paper, and the Fonds Canson will purchase one of her pieces. In addition, she will take part in a residency program at the home of the late artist Tunga, who was a member of the jury and who died earlier this month.

The other finalists for this year’s prize were Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, Bethany Collins, David Shrigley, and Lucy Skaer.

The jury was made up of Brett Littman, the director of the Drawing Center in New York, where a show of the finalist’s work is on view through July 1; Ian Alteveer, associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bice Curiger, the artistic director of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France, and editor in chief of Parkett; Amanda Hunt, assistant curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem; Helen Molesworth, the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Frédéric Paul, curator at the Centre Pompidou; Katherine Stout, curator and head of program at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; and Michael Woolworth, an editor and print master in Paris.