Noah’s Ark Communications Limited, organisers of the three-day workshop on Creative Photography and Makeup for students of Wasimi Community Senior School, Maryland, has said that the initiative was to boost the practice of photo-journalism and entrepreneurship among youths.

Creative Alliance, organisers of Literary Star Search contest, in association with WriteHouse Collective, a creative enterprise, culture and arts firm, will convene the January edition of Artmosphere, the quintessential music, poetry, performance and arts event in Nigeria in Ibadan. Significantly, winner of the 2012 edition of the N1 million short story prize contest will be announced.

Naija’s Most Wanted, a musical concert often staged as one of the top notch events during the Calabar Christmas Festival has never failed to live up to its billing as one of Nigeria’s top-flight music concerts.

Human rights activist, Mr Shehu Sani, who facilitated the aborted dialogue between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Boko Haram sect said, yesterday, that the insecurity in the country had transformed into a money-making venture for politicians and many in the security services.

In the last three years, the situation of human rights in Nigeria has deteriorated more than in any other time in our history since the civil war. It is time to call up activists, NGOs and democrats to the trenches: marshalling the strategies and combativeness with which we fought the military regimes.