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Nigerian Food with a Little Times Square Glitz

12Nov

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Entertainment

Nigerian Food with a Little Times Square Glitz

Some skepticism is warranted whenever a restaurant has a Times Square address. “You know, I suggested we come to this restaurant kind of as a joke,” the writer and recipe developer Yewande Komolafe told me recently, spooning out a serving of pepper soup at Lagos TSQ, a three-story Nigerian restaurant-cum-night club on Seventh Avenue near Forty-eighth Street, a block from the TKTS booth and just across the street from the enormous M&M’s store. I had asked Komolafe, who is the author of the new cookbook “My Everyday Lagos,” to bring me to one of her favorite Nigerian spots in the city. It turns out that list is short—practically nonexistent.Lagos TSQ727 Seventh Ave.(Dishes $12-$90.)The Nigerian essayist Yemisí Aríbisálà has described the nation’s food as “not yet given its due.” She wri...

‘The Black Book’ Is Nigeria’s First Runaway Netflix Hit

22Oct

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Technology

‘The Black Book’ Is Nigeria’s First Runaway Netflix Hit

Editi Effiong’s excitement is infectious. It’s less than three weeks since his crime thriller, The Black Book, premiered on Netflix, and the movie has already been watched more than 70 million times. “I’ve been in a very happy place,” Effiong says. “You create a thing and watch it go out in the world, it would make [anyone] happy.”The Black Book is one of the most expensive Nigerian movies ever made, with a $1 million budget raised in part from Nigeria’s tech elite, including the cofounder of fintech unicorn Flutterwave, Gbenga Abgoola, and Piggyvest’s Odun Eweniyi. The movie’s success—it claimed the most-watched spot on the platform in South Korea and has been the number-two ranked film in several countries across South America for over a week—makes it one of Nigeria’s rare breakouts on ...

The USMNT want Premier League wonderkid Luca Koleosho – this is why

19Sep

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Sports

The USMNT want Premier League wonderkid Luca Koleosho – this is why

Luca Koleosho is used to being in demand.The 19-year-old was coveted by clubs across Europe this summer after deciding to leave Espanyol in Spain, eventually joining Premier League newcomers Burnley.And internationally, too, there is a scramble for his services: he may have spent his summer representing Italy Under-20s, but the United States, Canada and Nigeria have not given up hope of persuading him to commit to them. He is qualified to play for all of them and all four will be studying his progress in England with interest.It is a startling rise for a player who had just six senior appearances to his name before this season, yet the excitement around him does not look overhyped. This is why Koleosho is a wanted man.When Luca Koleosho’s name was put forward by Burnley’s recruitment depa...

Olam Group Denies Fraud Allegations; Shares Tumble

11Sep

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World

Olam Group Denies Fraud Allegations; Shares Tumble

Olam Group has denied two news reports that alleged that the commodity trader’s Nigerian units and subsidiaries were involved in a multibillion-dollar fraud.

2Sep

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Entertainment

Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantages

Traffic can be a nuisance on the streets of any city. In Lagos, it organizes daily life—for schoolchildren, for office employees, and for the scores of informal workers who sell beverages and snacks to commuters who traverse the megacity in danfos, or public buses. “The energies of Lagos life—creative, malevolent, ambiguous—converge at the bus stops,” the novelist and photographer Teju Cole writes in his hybrid travelogue of Lagos, “Every Day Is for the Thief.”Look through the eyes of the photographer Logo Oluwamuyiwa, however, and a fleet of danfos morphs into a phalanx of intersecting geometric planes, transforming the everyday experience of traffic into a striking modernist composition. Citing inspiration from the American mid-century street photographers Garry Winogrand and Robert Fra...