Michael Aromolaran, Author at The Culture Custodian (Est. 2014.)

Sports

Everything That’s Happened Since The Super Eagles Lost to Ghana

April 4, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

It’s the season of first times for Nigeria’s Super Eagles: For the first time since 2006, they’ll not play in the FIFA World Cup. And for the first time since

Events News & Politics

Future Leaders Network Hosts Conference on Saturday

March 30, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

Future Leaders Network, a Nigerian youth-centric hub, will host its “Future Leaders Conference” on Saturday, 2 April 2022. Free and open to all, the conference is slated to start at

Feature

Profiles in Excellence: Mariam Ogboye on Breaking A 10-Year First- Class Jinx at LASU

March 28, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

Last week, the Lagos State University (LASU) hosted its 25th convocation ceremony at the Buba Marwa Auditorium in its main campus at Ojo, Lagos State, in which 112 students graduated

News & Politics

Explainer: What Atiku Abubakar’s Presidential Ambition Entails

March 24, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

At long last, the former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has officially announced his intention to run for the Nigerian presidency in the 2023 elections. As in the 2019

Feature Music Pop Culture

Afro-fusion singer Preyé Reclaims her Inner Child

March 23, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

“Preyé means God’s gift,” the Nigerian Afro-fusion singer explains to me. “What I do is an Afro-fusion RnB Soul sound. I love infusing my influences into my songs,” she says,

Events Music Pop Culture

Everything You Need To Know About Davido’s UduX and MTN Backed O2 Arena Concert

March 4, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

The O2 Arena announced yesterday that Davido’s We Rise By Lifting Others concert, with a seating capacity of 20,000, has been sold out. Indeed, we rise by lifting others, and

Feature Music Pop Culture

Review: Töme is Simultaneously Loving and Vain in ‘Löv’

March 3, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

A critic is tasked with deducing which parts of an artist’s work are intentional, and which parts are merely accidental, among other things. Töme has you sleuthing the ceiling for

Feature Music Pop Culture

Review: With “V” Asa aims for the Contemporary

March 3, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

Asa’s new album, V, would have one reflexively think about Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta. But Asa’s V more likely stands for Valentine. And truly, Asa is smitten with her

Feature Music Pop Culture

Review: There’s no Love Lost on Nneka’s ‘Love Supreme’

February 23, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

Nneka contradicts Nietzsche, her compatriot, on Love Supreme, her fourth studio album. In This Life, the album’s fifth track, the Nigerian-German sings, “Your God is not dead,” inverting Nietzsche who

News & Politics

Explainer: Why DCP Abba Kyari may be Extradited to the US soon

February 9, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

On Monday, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said on Channels Television “Politics Today” program that there were “reasonable grounds” to proceed against Abba Kyari,

News & Politics

2023 Nigerian Elections: Meet the Politicians Vying For The President’s Job

February 8, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

When Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It that “all the world’s a stage,” the Bard may as well have been referring to Nigerian politics, that most grand stage. As

Music Pop Culture

6 Nigerian Musicians Who Continued Education Despite Stardom

February 8, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

Everyone popular or important, dead or alive, has said a thing or two about the value of formal education. B.B. King, Aristotle, Einstein, Mandela, and even Bella Shmurda of Vision

Feature Film & TV Pop Culture

Just How Funny is Oga Sabinus?

February 3, 2022 by Michael Aromolaran

“Comedy is subjective” is a statement one hears often, uttered sometimes in defence of a joke that fails to achieve universal humour. The sentiment is often true, except in the