Entertainment & Society

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, (THEWILL) – Following a successful debut in 2013, the Calabar International Jazz Festival, has announced this year's lineup for an exciting Easter weekend. Connoisseurs of smooth jazz, R 'n' B and African dance music can look...

In a triumph long deferred, “12 Years a Slave” won the best picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday night, for the first time conferring Hollywood’s top honor on the work of a black director. “I’d like to...

The Fast & Furious star passed away in a car crash Saturday afternoon in Santa Clarita, Calif., E! News has confirmed. "Sadly I must confirm that Paul did pass away this afternoon in a car crash," his rep told E!...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 27, (THEWILL) –  Calabar, the beautiful capital of Cross River State is already agog with activities as the famed Calabar Festival begins on Saturday. The festival which heralds the popular Carnival Calabar will commence on Saturday November...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 24, (THEWILL) – Red Crown Productions has set Idris Elba to star and Cary Fukunaga to Direct Beasts of No Nation, an adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s best-selling novel. The story follows the journey of a young...

Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were handed a 20-month suspended prison sentence and a heavy fine on Wednesday for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the Italian tax authorities. The design duo, who are nearly as famous...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 09, (THEWILL) -Preparations for the first annual Calabar Jazz Festival scheduled to hold from March 29-31 have  begun in earnest. It is being organised by Destination Cross River - Nigeria's strongest tourist brand, and already well known...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, (THEWILL) – Justice Esiri (MON), who hit fame in the 80’s as village headmaster in the now rested television series Village Headmaster has passed on. Esiri died on Tuesday night, according to several sources in the...

LAGOS, November 03, (THEWILL) - Nigeria Saturday lost one of its pioneer fashion icons, Remi Osholanke, aka Remi Lagos. The fashion designer died in Lagos midday  after a short battle with cancer. Update: Remi Lagos, 51, reportedly died in London on Saturday...