There is an on going project being championed by Pince Adewale Laoye to revive the Yoruba talking drum culture among the youths in the South West.

Barely four months after the Joint Task Force on Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Restore Hope, destroyed no fewer than 500 illegal refineries along the Orashi River at Mbiama, a border settlement between Rivers and Bayelsa States, the operators of the illegal refineries are back in business.

IN the last few days, the shape of the government of soft-spoken Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as Governor of oil-loaded Delta State, in the next four years, as well as personalities expected to play chief roles in the policies and actions of his administration, are beginning to come to light. Visibly, Governor Uduaghan is in-charge of the political engine heinherited from his predecessor, Chief James Ibori in 2007, but it is a known fact that it is not all the power brokers in the Ibori era that called the shots in Uduaghan’s first tenure, and in his second tenure, it is understandable that new power dealers will emerge.

The concert of the year is back! This week, Nigerian Jazz maestro Mike Aremu officially announced plans to hold the third edition of Sax Appeal, the series of live music shows he started in 2009. And as usual the show promises to top the list of concert goers’ favorites.

THE June 1 letter from the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, asking President Goodluck Jonathan to obey the ECOWAS Court of Justice ruling that makes education of the Nigerian child a right, it is the latest effort in the new direction the quest for social justice is taking.