In helping you decide on which category to belong, I concluded the last edition by stressing the need to focus on your gifts and talents, and also the importance of developing them to the best of your ability, as every person has his specific requirements in order to attain the highest potential. I also emphasized that in order to reach your highest potential, you must operate within circumstances that are favourable to your specific needs.

TRUE to his words, the streets of Abuja are now wearing carnival looks in readiness for the 2009 Abuja Carnival beginning from November 21 through 24. Earlier at his first media meeting with culture and tourism journalists in Lagos, the newly appointed creative director of this year’s Abuja Carnival, Professor Ojo Bakare had promised that his leadership of the carnival team would transform the hosting of the national festival to what he described as “a street party”, which according to him, carnival is all about.

THE illustrated Things Fall Apart produced in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Chinua’s Achebe’s classic novel will be the star attraction at a formal presentation ceremony to be held on November 17. The event which will take place in Lagos will be chaired by HRM Igwe Nnaemeka, Obi of Onitsha with renowned playwright, Wole Soyinka being the special guest of honour among other notable personalities in the art and literary world and beyond.

DETERMINED to reduced the number of fatal road accidents in the country and in line with its tradition of promoting creative thinking, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) Ltd is teaming up with African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) to sponsor a world-class photography exhibition in Lagos highlighting the issue of road safety in Nigeria.

THE lingering succession crisis at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, took a fresh dimension last week when the chairman of the institution’s Governing Council and former minister of finance, Malam Adamu Ciroma, resigned his position.